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Originally Posted by stonetools
I think that Stross and the anti DRM crowd have a rosy tinged view of the future, whereby if you eliminate DRM, somehow a healthy, competive and diverse marketplace will naturally bloom and the small retailers will somehow be able to compete against Amazon and the big retailers absent DRM lock-in. Bollocks, in my view, but there it is.
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It will certainly give others a chance, but it'll take a lot to pull off any major success. If they'd started out this way instead of doing it years later there would likely have been a better chance for market share.