Extracting content from an LCP “protected” ePub

> have you stopped beating your wife?

or, more fairly

> how do we force people to pay for content?

Intellectual property, as a property, is such a fundamentally busted idea to the point of absurdity. One of the symptoms of it presents itself in your very question.

The better option comes from the question

> how do we allow people to pay for it.

If you haven't lately, watch someone stream on twitch, people enjoy paying for stuff they like. Go look at any of the artists who release their albums for donations. Same outcome, when people don't feel taken advantage of, or abused they want to contribute fairly.

Will there be people who abuse it, yes, but how's DRM working? Torrents still exist. There's not a single thing I haven't been able to download without permission. DRM doesn't stop motivated people. It only motivates people like me who consider it toxic, to break it.

If I wanted to read a book, and could download it from a library, but I had to promise to delete it when I was done. Or I had to click a button to return it. I would. I would follow those rules because I agree with them. But if I wanted to read a book, that I wasn't willing to pay for, and my library couldn't give it to me in a format that works on my remarkable. Well I know how torrents work.

Are there better solutions than DRM. Yes trusting people. Even trusting those who you know you cant trust.

And then trusting people like me, with more than enough money, who will pay more than I think you could force the average individual to pay, because I want to support people creating art I enjoy. And I want people who can't afford it, people like past me, to enjoy it too.

It's a funny thing that, the only people I'm willing to give money to, already give away their content for free...

Because those people are, after all, inhuman robots with no connection to humanity? In fact, I'd say that with any group of humans, each additional human makes this more likely, simply because this sort of attitude easily overrides the less-aggressive attitudes of those who don't agree with it.

You seem to disagree because it would be uncomfortable if I were correct, and you'd much rather it be true that I'm wrong.

>trying to make sure they can continue their stated mission

What person over the age of about 5 thinks that because an organization starts with a particular mission that, even a few years in, still strongly pursue it?

DRM for sales is another. The world didn't end when Apple forced music publishers to drop DRM, and a number of smaller publishers have seen success selling DRM-free ebooks. I don't see why that couldn't happen with the wider ebook market.

Digital books are a good thing. I can hear about a book I'd like to read and start reading it minutes later. It also drastically lowers the barriers to publication for new or controversial authors. I want authors and publishers to be able to make money, so I think it's fair that they take some precautions to ensure that the book is not redistributed for free.

I would love if someone could come up with a truly friendly DRM for ebooks that would be supported by all major reading hardware/software and accepted by the publishers. Then we'd have a functioning ecosystem not dominated by one or two mega players. Curious what people here think might work?

And given books are so easy to duplicate from the form that needs to be available to users to read, there is no world where DRM will ever stop duplication of books.