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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Fair enough. As I've said elsewhere, I'd quite like an elegant 'Ex libris' frontispiece in my purchased books give where, when, and for how much I bought the book. If it also had an invisible 'watermark' with the same info, it wouldn't concern me.
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Same. As long as the DRM doesn't prevent me from doing with it what I want (including converting it to other formats), it's fine with me. Even very old games had 'DRM' in the form of a CD check, or "Type word X from page Y from the manual."
Star Trek: 25th Anniversary (1992) had both: it required the CD, and it only had the names of the planets printed in the manual. The game would tell you to go to Pollux, but the star chart wouldn't have any names. You needed the manual for that, and it had some sort of copy protection as a copy of the star chart would have a black area where the names would have been. (Although, a few years later, scanners did work, as do newer copy machines. I know, because I turned the game into an ISO-file and scanned the manual.)
That kind of DRM never bothered me that much.