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Originally Posted by rkomar
On principle, it galls me to pay for a product that is designed to stop working after a while (i.e. DRM encryption). It would be like buying a paper book printed with disappearing ink.
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But that is not what they were designed for, and that is not how it works. You might as well say exactly
The same thing about paper books, because 'by design' they stop working if you go blind or if they get set on fire, just as if they were printed with disappearing ink. I'm no fan of DRM but that's an inappropriate criticism. To stand by your principle as stated, if you think it applies to DRM, you'd have to never buy any product that might ever stop working for any reason.