Nicely put -- though I might say
one unstated rather than
the real purpose, as publishers, marketers and manufacturers' reasons for supporting DRM can be different even when they coincide.
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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
The real purpose of DRM is to tie consumers to one particular hardware device and to make it inconvenient to switch to another (competing) device. The idea is that once you get a customer you will never lose them because the only way for them to switch to a competitor is to throw away all their software purchases.
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