Thread: Arguments For And Against DRM
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Old 10-20-2014, 02:20 PM   #380
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Originally Posted by Sgt.Stubby View Post
You're grouping two different schools of thought that don't make sense. Those with a "moderately functioning moral compass" do not financially sponsor DRM, and therefore do not buy DRM'd content. While this does not conflict with the law, it certainly does not respect laws that have lost sight of the origins of copyright (which was not to protect content creators, but rather to stimulate more creative works being introduced to society by way of incentivizing creation). You've got the means and ends mixed up.
Ah, so I don't have a "moderately functioning" moral compass, because I buy DRMed books. OK then. I guess I'd better run away and hide under my rock with my other hideously immoral friends, viz. Hitler, Stalin, Bin Laden, and Co.
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