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Originally Posted by HarryT
But what happens when what you want to do is to give copies of it to all your friends, or post it on a bittorrent site for 10,000 other people to download? You can understand, surely, that most publishers are going to want to try and take steps to prevent people from doing that?
We need to find the right balance between the rights of the consumer and the rights of the producer.
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Again the question is how drm stops content being shared on bit-torrent or whenever?? If you are someone who does that, what stops you from getting a drm-free copy and sharing it (for anything popular despite any and all drm there will be someone who will get that on the Net).
If you do not want to bother or you do not know how to get that drm-free copy why would you rush and upload your drm-free copy ??
This argument that drm stops the casual user from sharing is flawed because I do not think that there is anyone who is able to upload his drm-free content and not able to find a drm-free of said content if available. So the argument would hold water only if you could prove that having drm content leads to no copy anywhere on the Net. Experience shows that to be false, the determinant for Net availability being popularity/cult following, not lack of drm...
Drm just annoys people, adds to cost and complexity, and detracts from real issues like how to ensure a decent revenue stream to content creators/enablers from digital content.