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Originally Posted by tompe
You totally missed the point. The point was that the music industri is moving towards DRM free music because they make more money that way.
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They finally saying good bye to DRM because DRM implementation in music files is a pain in the neck. Ever tried to play DRM protected music on your favorite MP3 player? Only recently there are some available that can play such files. Most players cannot.
But DRM in ebooks is transparent. No license files, nothing. Just tell the online store where you buy your book the PID of your device(s). That's all. It's like giving your address or your credit card number. That is all DRM most customers will ever see.
And it is exactly the same with iTunes and the iPod. iTunes' files are DRM protected. But the customer will not be bothered with it in any way. That is the reason iTunes sell millions of files. And they are expensive compared to alternatives like on mp3sparks.com and the like, not to mention Emule and Co.
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That is really not an argument. There have been a lot of alternative mentioned here that probably would work.
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Lower prices were mentioned, yes. I wrote about that argument in my last post. Also digital watermarks were mentioned. I also wrote about that. And that pretty much were all alternatives people came up with.
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Originally Posted by Sparrow
Not a text book example (excuse the pun  ) - but Wikipedia seems to stack up quite well when compared with traditional encyclopedias. |
Though it is
here: Wikepedia is good for some topics. But overall it is useless when it comes to trustworthiness. Why? On Wikipedia the one prevails who is online longer than others and drives his agenda more aggressively than others. This is especially true for political topics. Truth is not democratic. And on Wikipedia not even everybody has the same voting power (others are online longer than you are, can edit more articles, don't have to earn money for themselves like you do, and so on). When truth is determined democratically, it is for sure a big fat lie.
Alan