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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's the whole POINT of DRM, Nate - to stop someone from buying a book and giving a copy of it to 20 of their friends  . You know as well as I do that there are plenty of people who abuse DRM-free eBooks - you have only to look at the eBook Usenet newsgroups to see how much, for example, of Fictionwise's DRM-free stuff is re-posted there.
Sadly it's the criminals who spoil it for the rest of us and make some publishers believe that DRM is necessary. |
Sadly that's publisher (and more generally content providers and drm providers) propaganda taken in lock stock and barrel; DRM's main reason d'etre is to lock you into a format, force you to repurchase the content once in a while and more generally increase the control on content
If you look at the underground content, drm has nothing to do with it by and large, popularity has; anything popular and it's irrelevant if it's a drm ebook or nor, even if it exists as an ebook, and it will find its way there sooner or later.
Anything obscure and again it's irrelevant whether it's Fictionwise multiformat or drm'ed, no one will bother to upload it anyway.
Though again more than anything it's prices (both of dedicated devices and ebooks) and lack of an easy way of freely converting your library to digital, the way you can do with cd to mp3, that until now made commercial ebooks the butt of so many jokes; drm is a problem but the moment ebooks will be more popular, it will either go away or be broken immediately as we saw clearly just recently