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Originally Posted by Crusader
The publishing industry are creating the problems for themselves. They are putting various obstacles in the way of willing buyers, which then have to resort to other means to obtain what they can't get legally.
The true pirates are people that would never have bought the product in any case, so they don't represent a market for sales in any case.
Remove the barriers for legitimate buyers and piracy will be a minor problem.
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You a absolutely correct. Some years ago I bought several MP3 albums. I soon realized I could not put them on the devices I wanted to, or use them as I wished because of the DRM. I was frustrated and quit buying MP3's from the main sellers at the time. I instead went to an illegal Russian site (a form of it is still up) where I could buy an entire album for $1, DRM free and in higher (360) bit rate than the 128 WMA's sold by most places. I bought from them for about three years (even got the Beatles stuff) and had zero problems. I did not like doing it, but I vowed not to buy DRM music again.
Then a few years ago Amazon (of all places) started offering DRM free, high bit rate MP3's. Guess what? I never bought another one from the Russian site again. I buy all my music from Amazon, and feel much better about it. In the end DRM hurts the publisher/vender as well as the consumer. It will take a while, but the ebook industry will find this out as well. Companies are run with old business models, and change comes slowly.