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Originally Posted by TGS
The same I suspect will be true of electronically distributed books. Once the publishers develop a business model that focuses on those who are willing to buy and the fuss about those who are willing to get the stuff from elsewhere dies down, publishers will start making money off it.
In the retail industry they call it wastage, (well, it's not even that in the case of electronic goods), they put a security guard on the door and a tag on anything worth over fifty quid. It reduces it a bit but no retailer has a serious strategy to achieve zero wastage. It's just not that important - apart from to those who think it signals the end of civilization as we know it - but retailers have got better things to do, selling stuff to people who want to buy it.
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Let's take it a step farther, for some reason they think they can get zero shrinkage so they add those people at the exit who want to check the contents of your shopping bag vs your receipt let's call it DRM. Seconds after the purchase they accuse their customers of being thieves and delay their enjoyment of whatever they just bought. Maybe some people don't mind, maybe some people go elsewhere, maybe some people strip the drm and walk right past the bag checker ignoring demands to see into the bag and get followed in the parking lot (happened to me once, can you imagine letting all the other people leave without having their belonging searched just to follow me and still not be allowed to search my belongings?
Now I don't think infringement will ever go away especially considering some publishers don't believe in fair use but any industry that treats it customers like criminals isn't going to win loyalty from the masses.