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Old 06-08-2008, 10:52 AM   #62
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To rope in the people who didn't come to the party in the first place... the "I despise DRM, so I won't play with you!" crowd.
Ah, no.

The anti-DRM crowd simply demonstrated to their uneducated friends how DRM is bad for the consumer. Once the number of suckers dropped too much, they had to go non-DRM or lose business.

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That doesn't actually mean the existing system (with DRM) didn't work...
If they got rid of it, it didn't work.

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I am defending the potential of DRM to enact some reasonable measure of security, not too much to infuriate and drive away customers, and enough to mitigate loss through theft.
Can't be done. Any attempt will make the legal version less valuable than the illegal version.

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However, I do actually use a DRM process in the purchase system I use, and have had no complaints (or even comments) about it, from members here or any other purchasers.
I checked your site. You don't seem to know what DRM is. There is no DRM on your site.
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