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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
There's an old motto - "The customer's always right!"
A more modern rewording is - "To be successful, you have to please your customer."
So explain to me, why does DRM "please the customer"? What advantage does it offer to the customer? How does it improve the current and future experience of the customer?
These are fair questions to ask....
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Its a fair question-if the ONLY stakeholders were customers. The other stakeholders are the authors and publishers who don't feel secure offering works for sale without DRM.
Since those stakeholders WON'T offer work for sale without DRM, the customers who want to read their work-the vast majority of customers-will put up with DRM rather than fore-go reading their work.
I might add that the exact same argument can be made for copyright. Copyright does nothing for the customer, except limit their right to commercially exploit the book they bought. Indirectly, though it benefits the customers by prompting authors and publishers to produce work for sale that otherwise would not have been produced.