STUDY SHOWS: Ditching DRM could reduce piracy, prices

[jersysman]

Shakes head in disgust.

[Freeshadow]

Originally Posted by kennyc

the difference in helping and sharing.

^^ and This ^^

and the fact that we 'll rather see pigs fly than people who actually never lost lent items with a rarity level close to unobtanium really understand.

[Ken Maltby]

DRM and Casual Piracy ... Casual Piracy the "sharing" or "lending" of ebooks.

There is a listed group of those who appear to support the idea that lending or giving
ebook files to others, who do not buy their own ebooks, is not something they would
do. The on topic point being that they are unlikely to be doing much Casual Piracy,
even if they may be removing the DRM.

There are a couple of other posters who seem to be advocating the sharing of ebooks
to "friends"/(muchers) and relatives. Either that, or their posts are simply off topic
expressions of their "Moral"? viewpoint. I'm not sure where these two stand on DRM
but they do seem to be supporting "Casual Piracy". Whereas those they listed are
for practical purposes, at least, somewhat against it.

To my mind that makes those two the "Casual" Pirates that the DRM proponents are
so afraid of, and those of us who just remove the DRM to make our purchases more
useful, as the victims in this scenario.

Luck;
Ken

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by Sil_liS

I shared books with my brothers since I learned how to read, and then I shared books with my friends. I never worried about the condition of the books because all the people that I know that I interested in reading take good care of books and return them when they are done.

But in your case wouldn't ebooks be independent of the causes that made you worry about lending pbooks?

Yes. But I had a lifetime of not loaning paper books; I haven't unlearned the pattern after a scant year with e-books.

[Catlady]

Originally Posted by SeaKing

Sil_lis, the truth is that unlike you and I there are people so worried about "things," even books, that they lose track of the important things, like people, like friends, like relatives. It is a sad commentary on this age of materialism. Very sad.

Their consolation is that even though they don't usually know where the people in their lives went, they certainly know where each and every one of their books is.

Oh please. What a bunch of pretentious, sanctimonious, ridiculous drivel!

[montsnmags]

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