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Originally Posted by webroot
...My stand is not to take any extreme position like "DRM is bad" or "DRM is all good" i want to know why still drm is alive, do people have reasonable alternative to that other than simply trusting consumers that it wont pirate....
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Perhaps it is still 'alive' because the majority of people don't really notice it exists. I'm only guessing but I would say the vast majority of people who buy a Kobo or Kindle use it exactly as those companies want them to, they buy directly on their reader or website and then sync via wifi or with their desktop app. They aren't going to encounter DRM unless they switch brands and have an expectation to take what they already own to the new platform and find out they can't.