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Originally Posted by stonetools
On #1, you are talking about rare instances of stores shutting down. Actually, when stores shut down or software publishers go out of business, consumers have problems that have nothing to do with DRM. Sure DRM doesn't help, but its just one incidental concern
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1st emphasis:
rare
ehm you are either kidding, treating otherposters here like complete morons, or deliberately ignoring galore of postings, by using such a word, regardless of all the cases,which have been presented from all fields of digital media usage in general AND ebooks in particular.
None of both possibilities casts a good light at the quality of your arguments an your manners.
2nd emphasis:
when stores shut down or software publishers go out of business, consumers have problems
Yes there's problems aplenty which
can emerge in such a case
And the examples of Lokigames (publisher), or all the games supported by ScummVM show, that they can also be solved pretty well.
But - as you admitted -
that have nothing to do with DRM. Thus there is no need to use said problems as a weasel-out argument.
In fact it's even the other way around, because if there is
no DRM present people actually get the
opportunity to face problems of the aforementioned kind and try to solve them - at which - as the above listed examples show they might succeed.
But if there
is DRM on the data people might plainly end up with nothing at all.
There's no chance for maintenance
when everything flashes and turns to ashes.