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Old 07-24-2009, 03:24 PM   #169
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Originally Posted by RobbieClarken View Post
Not entirely true. If your DRM is sophisticated enough that only 1 in 20 customers have the ability to remove it and only 1 in 1000 customers have the desire to remove it then there is a reasonable chance your book wont be decrypted and shared online. However, as ebooks become more popular and sales increase, the chances that noone will share you book will become increasingly slim.
Wrong. DRM has to prevent everybody from removing it, in order to be effective. Once even 1 person removes it, then anybody can share the removed version. Combine that with the fact that there is no way to create a DRM which can't be removed.

DRM as a method to prevent copying is useless.
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