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Originally Posted by narve
Ehem... care to elaborate on this? Are you saying only DRM'ed content is "pirated"? Or are you defining "pirating" as only applying to DRM'ed content?
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I'm saying that, based on my unscientific research, when I see lists of pirated content available for everyone to get, what I typically DON'T see is content that is available without DRM.
Ex: I usually don't see eBooks sold by Fictionwise without DRM on the Usenet eBook groups. I usually don't see MP3s sold by AudioLunchbox (which doesn't use DRM) available for download.
My theory is that pirates see non-DRM content as being "fair" and DRMed content as "unfair". The copyright of fairly available content is more respectful, and, so, they respect it. Copyright of unfairly available content is disrespectful and, so, they do not respect it - and make it available for everyone to download.