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Also unsurprised. People simply aren't going to buy products that they aren't allowed to use in basic, reasonable ways. It's like buying a cell phone that makes calls, but only during the hours of 11am to 3pm Mon-Wed, won't save numbers, won't let you call anyone outside your network, and every now and then, they issue a complete recall of a model and staff of the company go door-to-door and break everyone's phones. And no, they won't replace it with something else should they break it. You have to buy a new one. And it's completely incompatible with anything that worked with your previous phone.

If most cell phones were like that, I'm sure there's be a large black market for cell phones. Obviously a lot of people wouldn't actually PAY MONEY to be treated that badly. This should shock no one.

Even now (where cell phones are, of course, nothing close to that bad) there's still circumvention techniques for phones. Because in the technology age, telling people what to do with their own stuff just doesn't fly anymore.

I get that the book world is getting scared, as the latest form to media to start feeling real pressure from the internet. But how many times do defensive industries have to try and fail with DRM before they learn?

Customers have rights, too. And businesses will have to get used to the idea that in the digital world, you can't make people pay to be treated badly - there's a way around everything, your would-be customers will find it, and ultimately you'll just cost yourself money.