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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
You are implicitly assuming the majority of folks out there are dishonest and will cheerfully receive stolen goods, even if they didn't do the actual theft.
Why?
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You have only to read this site to see that a significant proportion of posters appear to be quite happy to download eBooks that they haven't paid for. Some like to pretend that it's perfectly OK to download an eBook if they've previously bought the paper version (logic which somewhat baffles me); others openly admit that they never buy eBooks because they
can download them freely and "it's no different from borrowing books from the library".
And these, by and large, are the same people who claim to have some "moral objection" to DRM - a mechanism which would prevent the criminal activity that they are engaged in. What they really mean of course is that if DRM were universally adopted, their supply of free books would dry up and that would be terrible
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Perhaps I'm just getting cynical in my old age...