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Originally Posted by frahse
You can always recognize a writer, particularly a book author. They always write a lot. It is hard to stop them once they get going. I am that way, and I think you might be a writer also, or you at least have that nature.
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I do, very much so. I don't call myself a writer only because no one pays me to do it, but I spend a lot of my free time writing whatever comes to mind. It's just something I enjoy doing.
As for names, I usually go by Freak, since I consider myself one of those as well. In the most positive sense of the word.
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Originally Posted by frahse
If I analyze DRM, its use, its effect, its acceptance by all the groups, I would say that it is a damper (or a partial brake). It stops piracy by the general public, slows it by people that might, say, be on this forum, makes (what do we say here) the suits up in corporate feel good.
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The problem I have with that reasoning is that what some consider "piracy by the general public" said general public might think of as perfectly legitimate use of the content they've purchased. Making a back-up of a movie, copying CDs to tapes so they can play in the car, or reading an ebook in an independent app on their phone are all things that fit the legal definition of piracy, but that Joe Average User might well expect to be able to do with the content he spent money on.
And if Joe gets angry enough that he can't do what he fully and completely expected to be able to do (he's among the 90% of users who didn't know of or notice the DRM until now) he will either learn how to strip DRM or get himself a pirate copy of the content, and he may well decide to boycott the legitimate store he bought his music/movie/book from. Publishers today think that's a risk worth taking though.