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Instead of wasting efforts on DRM and watermarking, they can avoid handing out copies until release time. But in practice they probably benefit from leaks, it keeps the buzz.

About the futility of so called "social DRM", see also http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/columns-and-blog...



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