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Originally Posted by m-reader
The technology is there, for sure, but you are assuming there is a single governing body for all publishers which will oversee this project.
Unfortunately, there's competing interests, copyright holders, royalty receivers (and I'm not only talking about authors here).
They all have to have their say. This means design by committee and we all know how well that works.
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Sadly, I must agree with you. I see it all too often. And those that would be on that "committee" would just assume that "fair use" never existed anyway. And even if there were a few unbiased members on that "committee" there would be someone shoving money in their pockets to get them to change their minds.
I think it far more likely that DRM will just go away at some point as they will never agree on terms that would allow it to succeed.
As to whether open source culture is the root of ebook piracy. To me that is a bit like saying libraries are a result of the open source culture. Let's face it, those that do steal ebooks off of the darknet might read the ebook they stole only once, if at all. Many probably don't have the money to go and buy the ebook and would have gone to the library to borrow it anyway, much as they would have a hundred years ago. Those that want an artist to continue writing will pay for a copy of the book, if they can afford it.
Etienne66