[cheerlessbog]

Wouldn't it be easy to fool such a check?

[hyperman1]

Most DRM is trivially easy to fool: Just pirate. When you circumvent DRM, you are pirating, except you paid for the privilege. You probably also have a bigger risk of being caught, as you still run the DRM software.

[guitarbill]

well, you're still supporting the people behind the works, which - believe it or not - i like to do.

and also, while the iso/tv/movie scene has strict quality rules, the ebook "scene" seems more ad-hoc. pirated ebooks are sometimes OCR scans with tonnes of spelling mistakes or weird formatting, or ancient editions.

in short, de-DRM can still be preferable.

[inlined]

Also, there are other ways to implement copy protection. Eg Apple moved from DRM to fingerprinting downloads so torrented music could be traced to the leaker.

[cthaeh]

Your clearly not looking in the right places. You can find good quality, recent edition copies of any relatively popular book online now.

[anoncake]

If you want to support the people behind the works, send them money. That way you also bypass any middlemen you don't care about.

[hyperman1]

You're also sending the message that DRM is OK. So I personally prefer to just buy the DRMless or else paper version.

[inlined]

There could be other solutions that are harder to fake. E.g. a failsafe that an SSL pinned address returns 410 GONE. That’s stupidly cheap to run indefinitely.