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Yep, which suggests possibilities :-
1) They don't think comic readers deserve as 'good' a product as book readers or music listeners
2) They are so dumb they think millions of people will email/transfer their DRM files to each other that won't work
3) Comics somehow need more protection because they are so valuable
4) They think people don't give a crap about backing up their stuff
5) They still don't want to sell them at all, really
1 is possible, 2 is unlikely, 3 would mean the lot of them are batshit crazy, 4 is likely true but they are obviously wrong. 5 is definitely true, currently.
Interestingly, Top Cow seems to experiment with this more - you can buy their comics at DriveThruComics etc., but not in standard cbr, they are PDFs with watermarks, but no DRM. Some free issues, too - some number 1's etc.
The other thing of course in general is they don't sell the new latest work at all, whether in the yearly subscription thing like Marvel, or by issue. Unlike book and music sellers. Or game sellers. So I wonder if part of their decline in interest recently is that competing media is whipping them and taking some of that market due to greater availability and usability.
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