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Originally Posted by ApK
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.
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DRM encryption doesn't have to be on a digital book, ebooks do exist without it. DRM encryption is applied to make sure that a digital book stops working unless certain conditions can be met. Part of those conditions require active participation by the ones who applied the DRM, and can go away at any time that they please. That is quite different from having a house fire, or the paper in books degrading with age. Just because the final result is the same, it doesn't mean we should feel the same way about them. Otherwise, there would be no difference between dying of a heart attack and being murdered.