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Originally Posted by jgaiser
I'm only halfway through this thread, but I have to butt in now.
DRM doesn't work. I'll say it again. DRM doesn't work.
The computer game industry learned that in the early years of the home computer. Their disc protection schemes were broken within days of being offered. Even hardware schemes (creating hard bad sectors on floppys) were broken.
Every DRM scheme for ebooks has been broken. The only thing that has resulted is the aggravation of legitimate users.
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Truthfully, if DRM did work, I'd use it for my books. I don't happen to think it works, so I don't use it. Do I think some people steal? Yes. Do I think some people steal for the sake of stealing? Yes. Do torrent sites hurt authors? I think so.
Do these questions have anything to do with whether DRM works? Not really.
