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Originally Posted by ScalyFreak
The difference between DRM and all your other examples is that the other items are regulated and restricted in order to protect the buyer and the people around him/her from harm. With an eBook, that is not a factor.
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intent of DRM is to protect the copyright owners from harm (and by extension, protect society from what would happen if the IP producers were harmed and stopped producing). I think DRM (and also copyright law) fails in it's execution, not it's intent.
If DRM DIDN'T add to the cost of ebooks, DIDN'T hamper fair use, DIDN'T impede space and format shifting, DIDN'T bring about the possibility of lock out, and only in some teeny way, prevented some some small fraction of infringement, I would not be involved in these threads (if these threads exisited under those conditions) and I'd consider anti-DRM folks in the "wacko extremist" category.
ApK