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Originally Posted by frahse
About security, about DRM, about people.
If you look about you will see locks, gates, grills, alarms, etc., everywhere. There is a reason for that. DRM goes along with that.
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Locks and gates are to keep unwanted people out of
other people's property. DRM is to keep people away from
their own purchases.
Can you think of another example of mandatory limited access *after* purchase? I can think of a few that might be tied up with public safety (if you buy a ranch, you may be required to maintain the fences around livestock), but nothing based on "we will decide how you can use what you paid for."
Even guns aren't required to be locked so that only the purchaser can use it, no matter how much safer we'd be if that were the case.
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And finally I will challenge something that many of you have said that I feel is wrong. That is about whether DRM is effective and if it stops "theft."
I will give you an estimate and that is all we can really do, that for 92% of the eBook reading public, DRM is totally effective,
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Effective in what way? In what way does DRM *make money?* What sales are you getting for DRM'd books that you would not get from open formats?
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and that is where I make my money. People get their eReader, they download their book, read it, and move on with their life. Maybe sometime years in the future they will wish to reread 10% of the books they have already read. They don't have time to worry about having a different eReader. This is the normal reader.
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Ah, the "books as produce" model... read and set aside; there'll be something new to read next month, so it doesn't matter if this book is non-functional next year.
Doesn't say much about your confidence in your skill as an author, if you expect that nobody wants to re-read your books or pass them along to their kids. I mean, there's nothing wrong with wanting to make money from casual readers and not care about long-term interest in your books, but it's not an attitude I hear from many authors.