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Remember way back when I suggested that resolving the DRM debate could be done by establishing a "better DRM system." At that time, there was such vituperative opposition to the very idea of DRM that I gave up and said that the debate would have to evolve to where people could conntemplate positions beyond "DRM-ULTIMATE EVUUL".
Looks like the evolution has occurred.
In the end, the decision to move beyond current DRM is going to be based on data from experiments like Pottermore and Tor.com going DRM free. In a year or so, studies will show whether the losses due to casual sharing are acceptable to authors and publishers at Tor.com and to Pottermore. If they are , we will see less DRM or less restrictive DRM. If they aren't, we wont.
Idealogical prononcements about the morality of DRM will play no part-and should play no part-in what is a business decision by authors and publishers.