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Old 11-20-2016, 11:08 AM   #485
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Originally Posted by pdurrant View Post
Neither I nor MikeB1972 suggested that selling digital content at a profit requires DRM.

What he and I have said is that the legal protection of copyright is required.
Legal copyright protection isn't necessary for selling content (digital or otherwise) for profit. It's necessary to prevent others from reselling your content for their own gain and not yours.

This might seem like I'm splitting hairs but it really is an important distinction. It's the reason why it's effectively impossible to make a profit selling GPL works (c.f. the reference to Red Hat at the start of this digression). You can sell your first copy to a customer but the GPL allows that customer to give away, or even sell, copies to anyone they want without giving you anything.
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