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Originally Posted by daffy4u
I'm not convinced that all DRM is bad. If I were a writer (which I would never be because I hate writing), I'd want to make sure I was paid for my work. I like the idea of it being tied to the person not the device and I think Audible comes close to that (encryption tied to my name but I can move it around to various devices without too much trouble).
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The problem I have with DRM and the argument of "authors should be paid" (and I agree that they should be paid!) is that it seems to spring from the assumption that all of their potential customers are thieves and can't be trusted. It seems to me that the majority of people who are into e-books don't have a problem with paying the author. Starting off by assuming they can't be trusted, so we must have DRM seems like starting off on the wrong foot.
Plus, for the "true" pirates (those that pirate for commercial gain), no DRM will ever stop them. As long as anything has to be made audible or visible to a human, DRM can always be circumvented.
For the rest of us, it's at best an inconvenience.