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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
I already have, more than once: The cable/satellite TV industry uses a DRM system (it's that little black box on your TV) to control their content. That box gives you access to some things, while restricting you from others, and making you pay for additional content (pay-per-view). They offer a lot of quality programming, which they use as a lever to convince you not to share your cable signal with your next-door neighbor.
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When you hit the "record" button you get a non-DRM version. The cable/satellite DRM you're talking about is between the industries service and their front end device. The data stream that comes from the cable box to the customer's display is non-DRM.
I wouldn't mind if eBooks are DRM'd from the retailers site as I download them to my PC, but when I read/save them the DRM is automatically stripped by the application. That's how the TV example works.