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Originally Posted by stonetools
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.
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Okay, indirectly, how does DRM benefit me? It creates a huge pool of works I can't access without allowing third-party software with complex and possibly unenforceable EULAs on my computer--is this to my benefit?
I'm not sure how DRM directly benefits anyone except the people who sell it.
Soothing author and publisher paranoia is not a benefit. Allowing them to think that flawed technology is protecting them is not helping anyone except the stores that get customer lock-in out of it; allowing them to think that evasion of that tech is costing them income is not helping anyone except the people who promise they have new, better DRM tech.