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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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Is that really the criteria for success as far as going DRM free on TOR's part though? I would think just showing that DRM free doesn't hurt their sales coupled with jettisoning whatever fees they have to pay for licensing a DRM scheme would be enough to consider it a success.