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Originally Posted by DiapDealer
I can't imagine a noob that would be be typing anything like DeDRM or NoDRM into a search engine. The only people who know those terms already know where to go.
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When I was first learning about DRM, I was reading in this forum. I saw the term DeDRM mentioned a lot. I didn't know about the software that was specifically referring to, but I had a pretty good idea of what "DeDRM" meant. So I indeed typed that exact term into Google (back then, NoDRM had not been born yet).
If a new person comes to these forums and starts to read the mega-thread on this topic, they're going to run into the term "DeDRM" much more frequently than "NoDRM" for the first 5000 pages or so (although the first post in the thread was edited by a mod and mentions NoDRM - that was a thoughtful move). The first time I ran into the term NoDRM, I thought it was a typo. The second time, I thought it was a competing tool, and I am more prone to continue using the original when a competitor pops up. Eventually I figured out that NoDRM was a replacement, not a competitor. This is probably first stated explicitly on page 5001 of the thread.