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Originally Posted by Nate the great
Okay, what about the customer's property rights?
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First, DRM isn't supposed to protect YOUR property rights. That is a company's way of protecting their rights. They protect theirs, you protect yours. So, it sounds like you are aware of a number of problems with DRM. Thus, your property rights are exercised and protected when you choose not to buy products with DRM.
Should you buy something with DRM and your property rights and/or terms of your contract with that company are violated, then you should seek civil redress in court. The producers on the other hand do not get that option in the vast majority of instances because their property is stolen anonymously over the internet and they can hardly ever find out who to pursue.
So that's what about the customer's property rights.
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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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The fact that those incidents didn't protect the company's property rights doesn't mean that DRM didn't protect their property rights overall. As I said, if you are against DRM, don't buy DRM products. That is how you protect your property rights.
No company is obliged to produce the product you want the way you want it. Likewise, you are not obliged to buy a company's product if you don't like how it works. That is how a fair, free market works, by means of VOLUNTARY trade.
Now one may argue that in the end, DRM is not the most effective way for the company to protect it's product, and they may be right. But it's the company's right to choose how to protect their investment however they see fit. Knowing that, you can choose your purchases accordingly.