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Originally Posted by Jack Torrance
I have to agree that DRM is just a PITA for the average person.
I recall having an argument with a co-worker about downloading songs . . .
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If I purchase music, I am going to listen to it many times, over a number of years, and will use more than one playback device. In this I think I am like the average person. For this reason, music DRM would indeed be a PITA.
If I read a book, I am unlikely to re-read ever, and if I do re-read, it is something I last read maybe thirty years earlier. In this I think I am like the average person. As for switching between devices while reading a book, I don't do it. Again, in this I think I am like the average person.
Is eBook DRM a PITA for me? Yes, but not for the reasons you imply. It is a PITA for the same reason that it is a PITA when I can't renew a paper library book, because someone else wants it. But on the rare occasion I buy an eBook, DRM is transparent to me.
Maybe you are mistaking the average person for a minority of readers who are also large-scale book collectors. For most readers, DRM is less of a PITA than the mechanisms it is replacing -- those being the checkout lines in libraries and book stores.