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Originally Posted by Liviu_5
Again, it's irrelevant what you, me, or publishers want and think; the marketplace has spoken resoundingly against drm and that's that
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You are comparing apples with pears - as we say in German. DRM in music and in ebooks cannot be compared because the implementation is so different. DRM in music is indeed crap because many players cannot handle licenses and even on a stationary computer it often creates more problems than most people can imagine.
But DRM in ebooks is, except for the possibility of a company going out of business, transparent, easy and virtually unnoticeable. The same did Apple to DRM and guess what, it suddenly works. People are buying DRM music because they don't notice it anymore.
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Originally Posted by Trenien
And your point is ?
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Piracy does indeed hurt the music industry a lot. Revenue decreased dramatically while consumption still increases.
Alan