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Originally Posted by Roy White
Don't feed the trolls
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I think there's a real insight in Roy's comment. Authors deserve to be paid for their work. Programmers, on the other hand, only deserve to get paid when their code works. A book+DRM is part book and part program. I'd gladly pay for the book part, if I could get it without the DRM part. A publisher, who did NOT write the book, paid for the DRM part. Perfect, unbreakable, DRM would be the sort of program I'd pay for. Not that I've ever seen such a thing attached to a book. Cheap, easy-to-undo, DRM is pretty common. That's not a program that I'd pay to encourage.
Authors are welcome to my money, DRM programmers = trolls, are not.