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Originally Posted by Freeshadow
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.
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Do you remember Lotus 1-2-3 when it was sold on floppy disk with DRM? I do. And it was a hellish nightmare. If the hard drive died, you could not them reinstall it on another computer as you had to uninstall it so it could write back to the floppy disk. If there was a problem when the uninstaller wrote on the floppy disk, you had a problem. And in some cases, the DRM caused a problem with doing hard drive backups. So really, it was just a nightmare. And considering how much it cast, it wasn't worth the hassle.