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Piracy won't be stopped. But few publishers realise that it has a special value of its own. Piracy identifies hot property (supermarkets used to use shop-lifting statistics to pin point their most popular items -- and cash in on this back-door market research), and in its own way, it is a valuable promotional tool. As a small independent publishing house, my own BeWrite Books resists DRM wherever possible. Sadly some retailers build in their own. It's unnecessary, intrusive, short-sighted and a pain in the nether regions for buyers. If books are truly of value, well presented, fairly priced and with no restrictions, honest readers (the massive majority) will more than make up for bandit downloads. Neil
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