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Originally Posted by leaston
I think it's the other way around. They have to trust that irrespective of whether DRM exists, people who want a free copy will usually find a way to get one!
It's market driven, the same way the legal retail system is. Supply and demand. For as long as there are punters out there who want a copy of the latest Rowling novel, someone will crack the DRM and distribute it.
Perhaps at one time DRM would have been a deterrent to the average Joe casually copying something for a friend, but is that still the case? Even a quick browse online can provide opportunities for most people to find DRM stripped files, be they games, apps, music or books.
Hmm, is that an argument for or against DRM??  |
All these DRM strippers are for only Adobe and Amazon's and yes there is no relief for popular titles such as J K Rolling wherever they go (drm vendor) hacker will chase them.
I doubt your market driven argument, inconvenience of drm is a matter but market is like a coin whose one side is buyer and other author, at least about software industry I can tell what we have today as a software ecosystem is decided from top to bottom and in a way they could make money first. Most programming language and technology is tailored so they can make money out of it. Even a publisher and author is thinking for money irrespective whether they liked writing /editing very much.