All evil in the world is the result of an imbalance between the people who benefit from shenanigans and the people who get screwed by shenanigans. - Cory Doctorow

Right, and you point out something important which is that people who don’t want to pay, people who are pirates, don’t get bothered by the DRM, they go out and buy the cracked books or download the cracked books for free. It’s only people who are foolish enough to pay for them that get locked into these platforms.

Again, I was torn between the impulse to hang up on him and to hear more. Nosiness won (nosiness always wins; bets on nosiness are a sure thing).

All secrets become deep. All secrets become dark. That's in the nature of secrets.