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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
And I keep saying, it doesn't have to be 100% perfect to be effective.
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Yes, it does!
This is exactly the problem. It only takes
one, single person to obtain a (possibly legal) copy, break the DRM and distribute it for it to be available DRM free to anyone who wants it. Or worse, simply break the DRM full stop.
There are people who will break DRM simply for the personal or technical challenge or even as a point of principle, always assuming they don't do it simply in order to use the content on their choice of hardware.
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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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You're forgetting that legitimate customers can have good reason to break DRM.
Consider, for example, all those people own a Sony reader but who want to buy a book only available in DRMd mobi or lit format. These people can be willing to buy and use the books in a perfectly acceptable manner, but they still need to strip the DRM in order to format shift for their hardware.
For those legitimate customers who want to pay but who can't break the DRM, their choice is either get a bootleg copy or just not buy it. Of course, they may buy a legal copy and download a bootleg to actually read but that rather defeats the point of DRM. And again, these are
legitimate customers who
want to give you money.
Remember, the DVD CSS protection was broken by people who only wanted to play their legal DVDs on their Linux computers. Even today, there is no legal way to play a legally purchased DVD with DRM on a Unix machine. The same goes for LIT and, I believe Mobipocket.