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Originally Posted by Hamlet53
It is my opinion that the best the ebook sellers like Amazon can hope for is a carrot and stick approach. The stick is making breaking the DRM difficult enough and holding out the possibility of legal sanctions. The carrot is pricing the ebook downloads at a point that it is not worthwhile to make the effort to break the DRM for the purpose of illegally sharing the file.
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If the price is low enough to make removing the DRM not worth it, I suspect it's low enough to make make searching on the internet for a free illegal copy not worth it.
There is no carrot for the consumer with DRM. There is only stick.
One stick that particularly irritates me at the moment is with DVDs. If I buy a DVD, I often am forced (by the DVD author, in combination with DRM and the monopoly on DVD players) to wait for some tedious anti-piracy message or advert to finish playing, before I'm allowed to watch actual contents of the DVD.
Of course, people who haven't bought the DVD, but have downloaded a copy, don't have this problem!
All stick, no carrot.