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Originally Posted by David Derrico
Even as an author, I have to say that DRM does more harm than good. It annoys legitimate customers more than it prevents piracy. And, honestly, if someone steals a copy of my eBook, no skin off my back, I hope they enjoy the thing and maybe tell a friend.
Plus, what normally happens is that pirates can crack it anyway, so now it's just annoying legitimate customers and locking them to a particular device. Meh.
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It's actually worse than that-there are undoubtedly some people who would like to buy your book, but it's not available in a format supported by their device. DRM prevents them from converting the format (assuming 'perfect' DRM, which luckily doesn't exist) so DRM has actually *cost* you customers.