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How does it do that? Someone, somewhere will break the DRM within hours or days (if it isn't already broken) and once it's broken and the book made available it becomes trivial to pirate it.
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Most casual / convenience pirates know where to go to get tons of pirated materials, and the job of circumvention has already been done for them. It just takes one person to do a circumvention, and then the rest can benefit. |
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Not really what I'd call piracy, which I would consider to be large-scale anonymous sharing of an ebook. |
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So you are making the case DRM has not prevented a single instant of piracy? If DRM offered no resistance to the free flow of media, why then do so many rail against it?
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In short: it penalizes legitimate users while offering no detriments to mass uploaders. |
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I don't mind hyperbole in the least, but when it's offered as a contrast to the more accurate original statement it just strikes me as chest thumping. |
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Certainly many mid-list authors who still have day jobs aspire to make enough money from their writing so that they don't have them any more. -- Bill |
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I think you should get the ebooks free if you have proof of purchase for the paper books, but I understand why publishers are slow to adopt that model.
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It depends on your definition of piracy. I don't consider letting a friend read a book that I've greatly enjoyed when I've finished reading it 'piracy'.
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If I want the e-book version of something I already own, I buy it. I have probably repurchased about 50 books for my e-reader because I wanted to read the e-book version. I will repurchase the Harry Potter books when they become available as e-books. I have a feeling that is going to be a long, long time coming. |
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That is the logic behind removing DRM. I should be able to use my e-book on any e-reader and not be limited to one e-reader.
Personally, I am not buying paperbooks any more. If the suggestion is , buy the paper book, get the digital book, then ok. But if the suggestion is that I can send in my past book reciepts and get a free copy of the e-book then not so much. There is a difference in bundling a current item, movies come with digital copies, comic books with a digital copy, and asking for the digitial version of something you bought before such bundling occured. |
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Your LP/CD analogy is somewhat lacking... To make it more apt CDs and CD players would have to be exclusive. Memorex brand CDs only work in Memorex brand CD players, and Pioneer CDs in Pioneer brand players. You would only be allowed to listen to certain music in certain locations, and if you wanted to lend a CD to your neighbor you would also have to lend him your stereo system as well. A scenario similar to this would probably have resulted in at least a few (warranted) consumer complaints, and the music publishers would have hopefully seen the light and relented. |
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