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Originally Posted by Kirtai
I'm well aware of what DRM is meant to do, I'm just saying it doesn't work...
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And I keep saying, it doesn't have to be 100% perfect to be effective. It only has to be more trouble than it is
worth to break, and worth is dictated by incentives to willingly buy the product. That's the way all successful security systems work, and even e-book DRM could work that way once the proper balance of incentives and DRM are found.
This is a point that many of you are missing: If the customer is
willing to buy, they will ignore the torrents and file-share sites, making bootleg copies irrelevant (as many of you often insist they are anyway).
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Originally Posted by anappo
It would be reasonably trivial to:
1. Open a DRM-ed file in mobi viewer on your windows machine
2. Take a screenshot of a page area of the viewer.
3. OCR it into plain text.
4. Send "next page" keyboard event to the viewer.
5. Repeat until last two pages are identical.
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Sure. And if it's even less trivial to
buy the e-book, who's going to go through all that?
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Originally Posted by Kirtai
Bear in mind I have no objection to artists being paid, indeed one of my earlier posts was asking you what you thought about a fixed fee for access to your works. I'm simply stating that naive technical restrictions are not the solution and legal ones are even worse.
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That's true, I never did answer that question. (That's what happens when you get too caught up in all this DRM screaming.) Paying up front may work for some models, like magazines, or even for a publisher that knows it will release X number of novels per year. But for a single author, I'm not so sure. I would consider it wrong to do that to my customers, since I cannot predict my future output (neither my rate of writing, or your satisfaction with the subject matter... not all of my books are similar in style).
I would sooner lower the price on my books, or add some bonus content to them, as an incentive to buy, than to ask for money for books before I've even thought of them.