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Originally Posted by HamsterRage
The last time I looked at buying a CD v. buying the MP3 from iTunes, the CD was $14.99 and the download was $9.99. A blank CD costs about $0.25. So I went with the download and I'll burn a CD if I want to play it in my car.
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You forget the difference between mp3 codec and raw audio file on a CD. If you want a clear sound and want to listen to the music on a very good stereo, mp3 is just a no-no. And If you can afford the stereo, you don't mind the little extra for the CD, because you buy extra quality.
All that said, DRM is not the way to go.
Pirated books (scanned) were there long before ebooks, so the kind of people who want ebooks for free are fanatical enough to get them, no matter what DRM is out there. Ultimate software just doesn't exist.
DRM prevents mommy from sending the cool new book to her best friend, which actually prevents the author from being more popular. (the younger and poorer me has read almost all his favorite authors lent from friends whose parents had more money. Now I can and buy books from these authors, which is profit for them that would never occur if I had to buy these first books.)
DRM has never, and never will stop the people who want free stuff from getting it. Fact.
Finally, DRM is a bomb with a timer. When years from now people start shifting (for whatever reason) from one DRM system to another and discover it impossible to read their books on the new device... I can only speculate what will happen, but it won't be beautiful.