To DRM or not to DRM?

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I tried out a DRM for my digital comics a while back. It was way too clunky and irritated the people who actually buy my comics rather than hang around dubious forums begging people to post them for free. This meant I basically had to sit back and accept the losses being incurred through unauthorised distribution – and by “unauthorised distribution”, I don’t mean one person posting it to another person, I mean the product I’m trying to sell being made available for anyone and everyone to download free for an indefinite period. Something which the offenders don’t seem to believe (or care) to be damaging.
Recently, some bright spark has collected every scrap of digital material I’ve ever created with the intent to sell and put it all in one place as a free download. This has essentially wiped out my inventory and is forcing me to take another look at possible DRMs I can apply to future digital content.
I’ve earmarked a few that I’m going to examine more closely, but if anyone has a recommendation, feel free to post it below.
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m4xm0u53's avatar
If it exists, it's been cracked and pirated. No exceptions. DRM your comics and people will crack and pirate them just for bragging rights. Sort of a fun sport for people on my end of the internet to get the first crack on some DRM. In fact they will sometimes do it just to spite the fact that you use DRM.

Though I don't understand why they are putting you on the Warez lists. It's not like you are as large as Marvel or DC. Usually it's big media publishers or fat cat authors that they pick on. They never pick on the independents or at least most of them don't.