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Old 03-14-2011, 11:51 AM   #82
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Originally Posted by Worldwalker View Post
If the companies selling DRM-locked ebooks are being honest about their reasons, they're failing in their goals -- they're screwing over their customers and not even mildly annoying the pirates. If they're succeeding in their goals, we have to wonder why they want to screw over their customers and don't care about the pirates, and I can't come up with a scenario that isn't bad for the good guys. So either they're failing or they're lying, and neither one is a good thing.
I think they're being conned by the companies that sell DRM "solutions". It's a bit like bringing in an army of consultants to look for efficiency savings and spending more on their fees than you would be able to save in 20+ years. They probably do that as well — it's the sort of thing that shareholders demand.
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