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Originally Posted by Alan
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You know the iPod? You know iTunes? They sell music legally and are making big bucks.
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The same with DRM. Of course you can circumvent it in many ways. But most people does not even bother to try. And the majority counts. That's the point.
We might not like DRM (I do not). It might have some serious flaws in it (especially if the publisher is not available anymore and we got a new ereader). But I cannot see any alternative.
Alan
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Actually iTunes does not make loads of money for Apple considering that they make pennies per song sold since the vast majority of revenue goes to the artists/records; iPods make the real money and once drm music is gone for good, I will not be surprised if iTunes gets a major facelift like becoming a studio itself; after all if customers can go to Wal Mart and buy muisc to play on the iPod, why should Apple keep humoring the studios.
Regarding the majority and e-books, well right now the majority of people do not buy e-books and I do not see this changing soon; and there are alternatives, something called the print book that has been doing well for a long time; to convince people to try e-books you gotta offer big advantages not big disadvantages like drm
I like e-books but not at the cost of giving up the ability to read anywhere and anytime. let us have this discussion about the inevitability of drm when drm-ed e-books will represent something like 30% of the book market; until then I see nothing inevitable about drm