> and may cause plaintiffs to cease publishing certain works Okay, go on, stop publishing these. If a book is such nobody would voluntarily buy for a reasonabl

> and may cause plaintiffs to cease publishing certain works Okay, go on, stop publishing these. If a book is such nobody would voluntarily buy for a reasonable price DRM-free e.g. on Gumroad, it probably isn't worth existing. I doubt many people pirate content instead of buying it just because they can. People generally pirate what they can't afford easily enough and what they aren't excited about nearly enough to pay for (also whatever comes in ugly locked-in formats so a pirated version means better UX). In both cases they wouldn't be paying even if they couldn't pirate so there is no actual lost profit here. Except in cases when someone could unfairly force people to pay unreasonable prices which is the usual case with textbooks.