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Originally Posted by tirsales
@shaggy: And musicians do still - and will continue to - earn money for each sell.
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Will they? The RIAA lawsuits and P2P sharing is already starting to show that model is broken. If you're talking physical albums, then yes. But if you're talking mp3's, do you really think the RIAA will be getting a lot of money from online mp3 sales in the future? Musicians will make far more money from concerts than they ever will from mp3 royalties.
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Yes, I DO NOT like DRM. Not at all.
But: I still assume, that selling a book should give you money - just as well as selling software (which is essentially the same) should make you money. Enough money for an author to continue living from his book-sells, for a developer to continue living from his software.
I do both - programming and writing (not published yet) - and I want to get money for both. Not for some obscure "second market" (dont want to sell shirts, really), but for the product itself.
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As a programmer do you expect to be able to write one piece of software, and then make a living for the rest of your life without writing anything else?
An obscure "second market" for software is charging for support. There's already a huge number of companies out there that have adopted the business model of giving the software away for free, but charging for a support service. Open Source software is the one that people think of the most, but even companies like Oracle, Sun, IBM, etc (which historically made a lot of money off of sales) are giving away their software for free these days and making all of their money from support contracts.
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I do not know how this can be achieved. But - on the other side - using a kind of "serial number" would be a possibility, just like registering books online to specific devices, etc - look at software, it's essentially the same problem (and the same solutions can be used).
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There is no such thing as DRM that can't be broken, there is no solution that will work. As a programmer, you should know this. Going down that path is a losing battle that just acts to delay the inevitable.