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Originally Posted by HarryT
That's where I think you're wrong. Most people do not find DRM to be annoying; most people are either unaware of it or, if they are aware of it, they just don't give a damn about it. The overwhelming majority of Kindle owners buy their books from Amazon, and don't care about buying elsewhere. The overwhelming majority of DVD buyers don't want to "crack" their DVDs - they just buy them. People who care about DRM are a tiny minority.
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They are all aware of, one way or the other, but most people however think
it's how it is and learn to live with and/or deplore the "good ole times". The resurrection of analogue (vinyl) is in partly due this "before it was better" symptom. Although the Satellite fora also forbid the discussion of cheating-DRM, more and more people are sick and tired of the restrictions put there and try to find "alternative solutions". The people at one particular video forum are doing the same, yet this is not to pirate things (such discussions are promptly closed) but to avoid these awkward situations. Are you serious in telling me people are not annoyed by forcibly watching the trailers before the main feature????
I only once met a movie on DVD that instead of the typical warning displayed: Thank you for buying this DVD for 1 second then went into the main menu. Is it so hard?
Now, for this case. I own several Sonies. I have a love-hate relationship with Sony. They drop out the eReader business, for not being too much returning. The readers were redirected to Kobo libraries and bookshops. What happened to some DRM-books not "transferable"? Probably paid-and-lost. Is anti-DRM a legitimate means to get back my paid merchandise? Apparently not. Because the DMCA stays forever, even if the copyright will eventually lapse, in 50, 70, 95, on million years.
So, to avoid any complications, I stay with non DRM books, and those I make myself. I also stay with standards. Because anyway, like in antiquity, as in the Middle Age, as in the Romantic period, a good book was issued every 3-5 years. So it is today. Out of the billions of book printed or issued because countless authors have contracts to write a book a year, only a handful are really worth to be read.