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Originally Posted by slayda
The hacker has to work to hack the DRM. That takes significant time & knowledge. He is "paid" by his reputation as a hacker increasing and perhaps his knowledge increasing. Those who download the hacked version are "paying" his reputation.
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I don't believe the majority of pirated works are hacked. Most are scanned texts. Some are DRM works that DRM-freeing utilities have been used on. It doesn't seem to be a case of individual hackers working on individual texts and taking credit for it.