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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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I think you've got it backwards. It's not "remove DRM=rosy future", it's "keep DRM=Amazon has them over a barrel".
The publishers are trying to get out of a hole they dug for themselves using DRM as their shovel.