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Originally Posted by rcentros
There's a huge difference between a store locking its doors and DRM on eBooks.
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I'm still not seeing it. If they didn't believe that their customers would steal from them if given the opportunity, there would be no need to spend money on locks.
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Originally Posted by rcentros
A store can go out of business and I still own and can use whatever item I bought from them. If a DRM bookstore goes out of business and my DRM capable device dies (depending on the DRM scheme of course) the DRM encrypted book I bought can now become worthless.
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Completely different issue. And regardless of what word Amazon (or whoever) might use in their TOS, you do not buy the ebook, you lease it. If you lease a car, and the leasing company goes out of business, the bankruptcy court
will repossess the car (unless some other arrangement is made to the court's satisfaction, not unlike one bookseller buying out another when it goes out of business).
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Originally Posted by rcentros
They say, locks "keep honest people honest," but I don't buy it. Honest people don't have to be "kept honest."
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You obviously have little experience with people in the real world. It's not a binary equation. It isn't a matter of "this person will steal if given any opportunity" or "this person will never steal, no matter what." It's a continuous spectrum. The easier it is to steal, and the more valuable the goods, the more likely "honest people" are to take a walk on the wild side. Temptation is a fundamental part of human nature.
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Originally Posted by rcentros
I say that the vast majority of eBook readers are honest and that the DRM "locks" are almost completely worthless in stopping piracy. They are very useful in being a pain in the butt, however.
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How effective DRM is isn't really related to why it's used. Publishers
believe it brings in more additional business that it costs, for reasons that are, I believe, incorrect, but not so obviously so as to be stupid to believe them.