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Originally Posted by HansTWN
I think that is the reason we still have DRM. Once the general consensus is that not paying for any work in digital form is stealing (unless the authors, composers, publishers, etc. agree to give it away) there will be no need for DRM. At the moment too many people think everything should be free. Never mind that DRM is mostly ineffective and cripples legal uses, publishers feel it is better than nothing.
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I have to disagree for pragmatic reasons (not moral ones).
I think it's impossible to get people to pay for digital content the way we grew up paying for books, CDs, etc. Copying is too easy. There is no 'value' in a digital file, and evidence shows this is how younger generations think.
Everything should be free...not because it is right but because there is no other way in the digital age. I think it is inevitible that future generations will get all their media for free. I also think it is inevitible that media creators and artists will figure out a way to make money from their work.
Everybody wins!
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And I don't blame the publishers, I blame the "free" crowd.
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Many of the "free" crowd justify their actions by citing the insane restrictions DRM places on availability and use of media. Do you think it would be easier to shut these people up if DRM didn't exist? Do you think the existence of DRM makes it any more difficult for them to get their media?