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Originally Posted by HansTWN
Well, in some countries authorities are checking on who downloads from pirate sites, recording IP addresses, etc.
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Copyright enforcers have only gone after uploaders, not downloaders, as far as I know. The uploader is the one who is infringing the distribution right that copyright gives. It only takes one person willing to risk being an uploader for the information to be available on google/etc.
I'm not defending copyright infringement, I'm just pointing out the realities of it.
However, whether or not people engage in infringement does not change the fact that DRM is useless to prevent that infringement. It took the music industry a long time to figure out that the battle was impossible to win. Hopefully the publishing industry will be smarter.
DRM does nothing to stop piracy, all it accomplishes is to annoy your legitimate customers (and possibly make them turn to alternative sources).