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Originally Posted by Justin Nemo
But have you been forced to use it by publishers or against your will?
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Yes, far too often.
I'm a PC gamer. I can speak for hours on end on how much of a right royal f-ing hassle DRM has been for me as an honest purchaser of PC games. The hoops I have to jump through before I can play my legitimate copy are ridiculous, and don't even get me started on how little help I get from the publishers/developers if the DRM scheme goes glitchy and locks me out of my legitimately purchased game. The publishers' customer support can't even begin to comprehend that their DRM might be faulty, so all requests for help are met with "buy a legitimate copy, you pirate!".
A couple to times I have actually found myself in a situation where my choices were to pirate the game I have purchased (because the DRM prevented me from playing my legal copy) or not play the game at all.
I hate DRM, in case that wasn't obvious.
When it comes to ebooks, my stance is simple: If it has DRM, I won't spend money on it. I'll get freebies form Sony and Amazon, but I will not give them my money. Only publishers that won't stop me from putting the book on any one of the seven eReading-capable devices in my house, and back it up to my Box account, get my money. Simple as that.
