Eric Flint from Baen Publishers puts it like
this:
Quote:
"Electronic copyright infringement is something that can only become an "economic epidemic" under certain conditions. Any one of the following:
1) The products they want—electronic texts—are hard to find, and thus valuable.
2) The products they want are high-priced, so there's a fair amount of money to be saved by stealing them.
3) The legal products come with so many added-on nuisances that the illegal version is better to begin with.
Those are the three conditions that will create widespread electronic copyright infringement, especially in combination. Why? Because they're the same three general conditions that create all large-scale smuggling enterprises.
And . . .
Guess what? It's precisely those three conditions that DRM creates in the first place. So far from being an impediment to so-called online piracy, it's DRM itself that keeps fueling it and driving it forward."
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