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Originally Posted by zelda_pinwheel
yes !!! precisely. it seems to me that this discussion (and more importantly, the original article) is essentially asking the wrong questions.
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I don't think so, myself. I agree wholeheartedly that DRM in itself is not evil, but has not yet been properly implemented to satisfy buyers
and sellers... and it must satisfy
both, or you either won't have customers, or you won't have products. (Personally, I'd rather have products.)
But I also think the publishers need to spend more time on finding alternative methods of revenue for digital products, as the models for physical products simply do not apply... as well as adding more value-added content and quality to e-books in order to encourage acceptance of
some reasonable level of DRM, and to discourage the desire to hack and distribute.
Security methods that satisfy customer and producer have been accomplished in other industries, and there's no reason to think it can't be accomplished with e-books.