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Originally Posted by pidgeon92
Interestingly, the publishing "exec" quoted in the article seems to be careful to blame DRM on the retailers, not on the publishers.
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At the moment retailers tend to blame the publishers for insisting on it, publishers blame the retailers. Nobody wants to be the "bad" guy. However, I think retailers are the ones standing to gain the most from having DRM since it provides vendor lock-in.
If most publishers publicly go DRM free, then over time customers will be advised not to shop at certain stores that insist on applying DRM anyway since it's then clear the motivations are lock-in.