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Originally Posted by numtini
What the article concerns itself with is that most readers, viewers, listeners, etc have no problem with paying for material. We just want it to be reasonable and given the constant that piracy will exist, if publishers don't offer it on reasonable terms, the market will push people to simply pirate it.
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Yes they have no problem paying for material at present. That is largely due to our society recognising that people have a right to at least attempt to make a living from their endeavours and that artists have a right to at least ask for payment for their creative endeavours.
The idea that all digital media should be free because it is easily and extremely cheaply reproduced goes against the above. As this idea is accepted by more people and possibly by the majority of people then those people will no longer be willing to pay for digital media at all with or without DRM.
Cheers,
PKFFW