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Originally Posted by Moonraker
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I totally agree with rlauzon on this. There does seem to be an unwritten code of conduct used by the book pirates to leave stuff alone that they consider to be fairly offered to consumers.
Pirates will deliberately target stuff that they consider to be "locked up".
You can catch more flies with honey than with vinegar.
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I would be nice if you are correct in this, and I really hope you are. However, I can not verify this observation myself. I don't know where to buy, e.g, popular videos without DRM. I can't legally download the music that I am interested in, DRM or non-DRM. In fact, eMule seems the only way to get it
Furthermore, remember that there are different kinds of pirates. Some are "hobby-pirates", they just like to share and to download. Some are professional and actually make money off pirating. I am not sure they will consider profitable-but-non-drm'ed content fair and therefore avoid pirating it.
Perhaps I should do some research into what different content providers (books, music, movies) provide of non-DRM'ed content and see what I can download on P2P or similar services. Has there been any scientific research into this that someone can link to?