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Old 12-03-2010, 05:37 AM   #116
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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian View Post
Isn't that what I said? "Will put up with it". That's certainly not a vote in favor of it (or "inclined to support it", as you put it).
Would you accept that we are both right?

Sure some people feel that they "put up with it", but by giving in and purchasing anyway they do "support" the business decision to sell with DRM. (They support it in the only way that means anything to a commercial entity: with their decision to buy - that is their vote.)

The business will never know how reluctant the purchase was (nor care much I should think, as long as they get their money). Where is their incentive to do anything about it if people will buy regardless? At the moment they win both ways. They get whatever advantage DRM offers them from those that buy through ignorance AND they still get the sales from those that know better but can't help themselves.
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