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Originally Posted by JSWolf
Tor decided to give DRM free a try and it worked. They were not financially harmed. Tor proved that DRM is needed.
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If, as pdurrant suggested, you meant "DRM is not needed," then I would still argue that they proved nothing of the sort. They merely proved that going DRM-free didn't
seem to harm the sales of their very narrow sales demographic. "Not financially harmed" isn't the smoking gun you seem to want it to be. It's certainly not the same thing as "prospered financially," now is it?
I
suspect you may be right, but Tor's experiment hasn't come close to
proving that industry-wide DRM-free sales wouldn't harm certain sectors. And the rest of the industry isn't likely to jump on the DRM-free bandwagon on the basis of "not financially harmed" alone. "
We took a risk and achieved new heights of status quo" is hardly a ringing endorsement.