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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Acting like the only existent forms of DRM in the world are akin to fixing a watch with a mallet is only being obtuse about the issue. It is simply not true. There are plenty of examples of screwdrivers out there that could do the job to everyone's satisfaction... they just have to be developed for this one industry (about the only one left that hasn't managed to do so).
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No, the only examples of "screwdrivers" are ones where the industry dropped it completely, or else it is so broken that it is effectively meaningless. What the industry needs to learn is that there is no such thing as working DRM. It is fundamentally impossible to have a DRM system which prevents copying. There's simply no such thing. As far as DRM that also annoys consumers or prevents them from doing things that the law otherwise allows, that is where the "no such thing as preventing copying" will come into play. The industry needs to learn that DRM is a waste of time, and will only hurt them and their innocent customers.
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I'm not saying publishers don't have to change their expectations of the realities of the market... they do. But so do customers. It's a new day, it's a new product... and we all have to learn a new way to buy it, to use it, and what we can't do with it.
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Wronge. What we can and can't do with the new product is based on law and consumer rights, which have not changed. The industry is hoping that consumers will be willing to relearn what they can't do, but they are being naive. Consumers have the exact same rights for what they are allowed to do with the new product as they had with the old product. If the industry won't accept that, then they will fail. Most other industries have already learned this, publishing hasn't yet.