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Originally Posted by SpiderMatt
They're obviously offering something that's better than the alternative. If not, then people wouldn't buy from them.
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My point is that the EU is hurting the future marketplace and I don't want the repercussions to carry over to the U.S.
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No one would purchase DRM products if people didn't find them to be better than the alternative
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You seem to be under the evidently incorrect impression that the best product wins on a (free) market. Also, you also seem to think that much better alternatives that aren't yet available would actually be something that consumers could choose instead of the inferior products that are currently available.
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Originally Posted by SpiderMatt
The idea that the market would not move away from or make changes to DRM without threats from governments is absurd and grotesque.
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Why would the market move away from DRM? As long as most of the big titles are only available with DRM there is no pressure to move away from DRM. If people want those titles (and they do, per definition) then they will just have to accept whatever restrictions the publishers want to impose on readers because
there is no alternative. It's all very similar to price fixing, which is illegal in most countries, for a very good reason.
Actually at the moment there is an alternative to DRM. Namely to get the titles illegally. Hopefully the publishers will realize that there needs to be a legal alternative before too many consumers learn and get used to getting all their books illegally (which also happens to be more or less gratis).