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Originally Posted by LazyScot
I agree that education and no DRM is the better way, but I'm not convinced it will succeed 100%. The question is whether or not it will succeed enough to allow a DRM-free model for paid-for content to work. I'd much rather not have to worry about having keys for my house and car, but I don't think the "education" system protects them; in the same way the "honesty box" is not a widespread system (though I agree it works in some cases).
Why is DRM *necessarily* costly?
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well, sure, there will always be some dishonest people who will make it necessary for you to keep a key for your house and car, but no form of drm will stop them anyway, so why concentrate on them ? i still think (and models like baen and oreilly would tend to confirm this hypothesis) that the vast majority of people want to be honest and will pay for content, provided it is easy to find, convenient (no jumping through all kinds of ridiculous drm hoops), and reasonably priced (another hurdle the publishing company is currently taking pains not to jump over, with a few notable exceptions).
as for why drm is necessarily costly... hm, because the drm server companies are greedy ? adobe drm (for example) costs 10000$ to purchase the licence / sdk to be able to make drm-encoded files, PLUS a fee for each file served. the publishers aren't going to just absorb that cost ; they pass it along to the customers. that means drm not only is making a worse ebook experience for us, it's also costing us money. thanks guys !
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I don't see why it couldn't be made to exist, especially if every device had sensible communications, and a built in "move" button for content. It should also be possible to make it completely transparent and cope with device loss/failure (assuming some sort of content escrow agency could be set up).
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that is a good idea, but your content escrow agency... again, who pays for that ? i really get cranky when i am in essence forced to pay for added inconvenience.
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Interestingly, I think your case could be used to argue for DRM (sorry). It would either prevent the case being able to happen, or provide a fingerprint trace of who was actually responsible.
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how would it provide a fingerprint trace ? the only fingerprint trace i see there is my own, so even if i didn't upload the file (which was lost / stolen / lent to someone who turns out to be unscrupulous unbeknownst to me) i will end up paying the consequences ! not very fair, it seems to me.