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Originally Posted by NatCh
as far as I'm concerned, if DRM stays out of my way so long as I'm not trying to do anything illegal, then I'm willing to live with it to a large extent. An inter-operable DRM could go a long way toward that end. It at least gets folks thinking in terms of cooperating, rather than competing to the point of ruining the market.
To my thinking, a common or inter-operable DRM that isn't an obstacle to most folks using e-books as they want to use them (in the sense that it doesn't control where and how they read their books, I mean) would result in more folks getting involved in e-books. The more folks who are involved with them, the more voices there are griping about the DRM (and the other e-book obstacles), and the more likely the issue is to be truly resolved instead of just band-aided.
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You are reasoning from the point of view of the legitimate eBook buyer whose only concern is that a book bought when they have "device A" will be readable on a future "device B". From that perspective, "unified DRM" would indeed be both useful and workable.
What you're forgetting, however, is that the world is full of thieving bastards who want something for nothing. From their viewpoint, anything that prevents them from getting their hands on books without having to pay for them is a bad thing, therefore any form of DRM is BAD. Q.E.D.