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Originally Posted by HarryT
You seem to be implying that it's a "given" that DRM is a "bad thing". This is not a view which I share.
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This is actually what I was thinking about when I made the post. We can disagree about whether DRM is a good thing or a bad thing but it's reality. When I think about someone like my mother entering this market though it just feels like there is no truth in advertising requirement. I'm pretty confident that with fates and fortunes 25% of the formats and DRM schemes we're talking about today will not be around in 5 years. Nobody can predict which ones though.
It would be nice if the industry could categorize the product so the average consumer understands this and isn't disappointed in 5 years. I understand that "volatile" isn't something the general consumer will latch on to but thought someone else might have another idea.
The other thought was could companies who insist they need the proprietary formats and DRM provide some sort of guarantee that if they're not around in 5 years a conversion utility would be available for convert forward to another format. Most companies would probably choose not to and if their books are clearly categorized with that life expectancy I don't have a problem with it.