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Old 10-14-2011, 01:52 PM   #223
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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak View Post
DRM would be the equivalent of the store owner following you around and monitoring every your move to make sure that you don't handle your purchased item in any other way than the way they want. Slightly different from them watching you to make sure you don't steal in the store.
Actually, its to prevent the non-tech user from copying and distributing the product-something it does well.
You can't actually copy and distribute the product until you acquire it . And although people make jokes about it, there are quite a few products where the law regulates what you do with the product after you buy it -guns, for example.

But then, why am I getting into this again. Nah go ahead,-continue to believe that ebooks are the only product where the law is concerned with what you do with the product after you buy it, and its all a dastardly plot of the publishing industry. That's simple and easy to believe , and fits the prevailing narrative.
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