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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
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?
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You are quite right when you state that we all live with a certain level of security in our daily lives. But we also accept only a certain level of hassle. I have no problems with shopping malls security walking around and keeping an eye on everything. I WOULD definitly mind being thoroughly searched everytime I leave one, and the shopping mall that would try that kind of policy would see its revenues plummet.
DRMs provide an intolerable amount of hassle for the level of security it is supposed to provides. I will not list again all the reasons (interoperability, what happens when a DRM is not supported anymore...), but yes, for me, as a user and a LEGAL ebooks purchaser, DRMs are evil.