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Originally Posted by Sgt.Stubby
Indeed. DRM is a negligible inconvenience for free-loaders, and a very real inconvenience to the paying masses.
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The same is true of the checkout in a bookstore. It only inconveniences the people who pay before walking out with a book.
Locking doors thousands of times a year is a significant inconvenience for me, but negligibly inconveniences people who are really good at picking locks. What's different about DRM isn't the inconvenience level for those playing by the rules, but the social class of the lock-pickers. Pickers of physical locks tend to have dropped out of high school. But DRM scofflaws fill the halls of UCLA, Wisconsin, and Harvard.