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Originally Posted by pdurrant
The question is whether the library market is big enough to support the DRM software manufacturers on their own. The argument is that without DRM on books in general, developing and maintaining DRM software would not be a viable business.
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If a business is viable but not necessary, the answer is literal corporate welfare -- that is, cutting them a check from tax money to stay in business. It's the same effect (charging everyone X amount to keep the company running) without the harm to the market and to the customers in the process.
Yeah, it looks different when you look at it that way. But that's what allowing DRM companies to levy a tax in both money and inconvenience on every book buyer in order to stay in business really is ... and that is, of course, assuming that they
couldn't stay in business otherwise.