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Originally Posted by Bro Pete
It is hard for me to understand the strong animosity toward DRM. An author of an ebook deserves the same copyright protection as any other created work.
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I don't disagree with the things you say but I did want to point out how DRM provides a level of "protection" that is unexampled in the history of Content Author vs. Consumer. With DRM, Content Author's have eclipsed all previous precedents concerning their rights and they may now control access to content on a per view basis! And that is most certainly new in the world of copyright rights.
And then the Content Authors can just turn around and pretend like this is the level of protection that they should have had all along but the world was unable to provide them with until the advent of watchdog hardware and software mechanisms. *shrug*
It is what it is and this is the path they have chosen. We will have to see how many feet the consumer has left when everything has shaken down.
We live in interesting times, no doubt (even though nothing is new and all is gut-wrenchingly cyclic like the teacher said).