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Originally Posted by ahi
DRM is a fool's weapon for fighting other fools--but the people that DRM is supposed to fight are the very people who aren't fools enough to be inconvenienced by it.
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DRM is just another form of security, something I am pretty sure you live with every day, if you lock your house, mind traffic lights, use a credit card, own a phone or web account, and shop at stores with security cameras or guards or security strips in the products. It took time to develop that security for those things, but it was done, and people today accept them... I imagine you do too, every day. And if you can live with those, why is it so impossible to believe you could live with e-book DRM?
This is why I fail to see the logic in the argument that DRM is absolutely EVIL. And so far, none of the DRM detractors have convinced me that that is not the case. It's condemning a system that hasn't been given a fair chance to develop... mainly because of customers who scream from every pinprick as if their arm has been cut off, making it all but impossible for sellers to experiment and develop workable systems and value-added services to make them viable.
Sure, DRM isn't perfect. Neither was the Model-T. That doesn't make it EVIL, it means it has a lot of room for development.