> Anecdotally I would observe that few people pirate games, movies, books, etc released by publishers with a record for respecting their consumer based - compar

> Anecdotally I would observe that few people pirate games, movies, books, etc released by publishers with a record for respecting their consumer based - compared to piracy of media released by publishers that do things like revoking access to media you’ve paid for Anecdotally I've seen a lot of comments over the years from book authors whose books are sold completely DRM-free, as physical books and/or DRM-free PDFs, say that they are widely pirated. There are a lot of people who will always find an excuse to pirate. Even if the ebook is inexpensive, DRM-free, in a completely open format everything can read, and the license allows everything that you can do with a physical book bought from a bookstore including lending it to others as long as only one person at a time has access, people will find some excuse for why they must pirate it, like "I wanted to buy 3 books that week, from 3 publishers, and it is too much hassle to have to enter my credit card number on 3 different web sites".