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Originally Posted by stonetools
It's also easy to shoplift from Walmart, and shoplifting tutorials are also just a Google search away
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Yet we don't excoriate Walmart for utilizing anti-theft measures and don't insist that they give up on the idea of law enforcement, stop "victimizing" paying customers with their security cameras and their hard to open packages, and focus purely on better service.
I imagine , if you suggested such a strategy to a Walmart executive, they would explain to you that :
1. Their anti-theft measures pay for themselves in saved sales.
2.Their myriad paying customers show that they already do a great job of customer service.
Publishers would make the same arguments to the anti DRM crowd. |
Publishers
do need to address the issue of
why people who would never, ever, shoplift or steal anything feel perfectly ethically justified in stripping DRM. Because until they do that, the majority of tech-savvy users who would never even pirate anything will continue to do it either as a backup or to switch formats. It's something the music industry--what is left of it--has learned a thing or two about.