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Originally Posted by SteveEisenberg
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.
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It's hard to know what your point is here. Are you pointing out that smart people realize that the DRM laws are stupid? If not, what's so bad about breaking DRM encryption to take control of an ebook that you have no intention of distributing? There are already laws out there for protecting copyright and distribution. What's the point of the adding one for breaking encryption? Besides trying to suck money out of people without offering them anything of value.