Thread: DRM is necessary and good, stop complaining
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Old 01-23-2008, 02:04 PM   #207
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I concur with the original poster that DRM is good and neccessary. He hits the nail on the head that property rights are the cornerstone of a free republic. It is sad today the level of entitlement folks seem to feel about taking that which they have not earned.


Okay, what about the customer's property rights?

PaperbackDigital went out of business, They used to sell DRMed ebooks. The device authorizations cannot be updated; eventually the customers will lose the ability to read the ebooks they purchased. What about the customer's property rights?

There is a new problem with Quicktime. If you use Adobe After Affects to create a clip, Quicktime will pop up and tell you that you don't have permission to view that clip. What about the customer's property rights?

Adobe DE 1.0 had DRM that prevented the customer from saving a copy of a legitimately purchased ebook. This was one of the things that was fixed in 1.5. What about the customer's property rights?

At least twice this year, one of Microsoft's Windows DRM servers had a glitch, and decided all copies of Vista were illegal, so they stopped working. What about the customer's property rights?

P.S. Each of these incidents affected only customers who legitimately purchased a product. They did not affect the pirates. How exactly did the DRM protect property rights?
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