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Originally Posted by DaleDe
And what evidence do you have that this is true?
Dale
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Look at the music industry and see why they are chucking out drm. The main reason is not because they want to, but because Apple drm was used so masterfully to lock people to iPods by S. Jobs on the one hand (that's the control part) and p2p downloading of mp3's on the other hand (that's the fact that drm protects nothing)
Look at commercial e-books that are so insignificant part of most publishers business, and quite clearly a very insignificant part of the business pie in general, while any popular book or with a cult following is easily available on the darknet depsite drm or even lack of legal e-book (again drm protects nothing). Or how despite all the big hoopla with the latest epub thingy, the big guys like Amazon/Mobi and Microsoft/Lit are staying away and even Sony and Adobe are not doing that much (that's the control part - if the fact that Amazon came with azw for Kindle when they could have used Mobipocket which is technically identical but not drm-wise does not show clearly that drm is about control I do not think what will convince you - or do you seriously believe that this year or next year Amazon will say, yo Adobe, you are the king of e-books and we will chuck out azw and Mobi and use epub instead ??...)
Look at all attempts to do drm movie downloading and how they repeatedly failed, most recently Wal Mart threw in the towel. And the divx fiasco And...
I think there is enough evidence to show that all these attempts to lock people in, to control when/where you can use your entertainment, to create artificial scarcity are costly failures.
And again my opinion is irrelevant ultimately. The market speaks much more forcefully when real money are on the table not just talk, and the examples above are quite unambiguous. It's very, very hard to fight the trend