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Originally Posted by Ken Maltby
In other words, you only need to break the DRM, for eBooks that you have purchased. If you are breaking DRM you are buying eBooks.
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It's rather sad that we even have to resort to breaking the DRM on ebooks. There should be no DRM in the first place. I'm hoping that soon the publishing companies realize that DRM is hindering more than helping them. I think it will take more incidents like the Nineteen Eighty Four debacle with Amazon a few months back to start pushing consumers to demand removal of DRM. Consumers do not like to find out they thought they "purchased" an item but that it's really on lease to them.
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Originally Posted by Terisa de morgan
Not strange at all. One question that usually doesn't appear at discussions about piracy/copyright infringement/whatever is: books don't float on the air; books arrive to darknet because people who have obtained them "legally" (purchase, contests, ARCs) put them there. So, if you stop breaking DRM, it's difficult books arrive to darknet  |
The Harry Potter books have always been readily available in ebook form despite never having been released in electronic form. Many, if not most, pirated versions of ebooks come from scans of the actual paper book. DRM has done absolutely nothing to stop ebook piracy. If anything it has probably increased piracy since pirated ebooks (like other pirated media) don't have artificial and idiotic restrictions on them like DRM'd media does. The music industry seems to slowly be coming around to the fact that people will purchase content when it's at least as easy and convenient as the pirated stuff and has no artificial restrictions. In a few years I'm sure the book publishing industry will be forced to come around too.