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Originally Posted by Requiem
The DRM is currently the best way that the company can secure THEIR work on the public domain.
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I dare object this:
DRM is perceived as the only way the company can secure their work. It's not necessarily the best way, nor we can say other options have been fully explored so far.
My company produces software, and we sell licenses of that software. We do not "DRM" our software, we just adopt a "tight channel" to know who is downloading what from our distribution services everytime.
Technically, there is nothing that prevents one of our customer from copying our software and giving it away for free.
Incidentally, though, our profits increased shortly after we decided to drop our previous software protection.
I know it's more complicated than that (dropping software protection meant reducing costs, thus making the purchase more appealing), and I know that software is not books, but its still digital content, which can be copied, "pirated", illegally distributed.
And oh, I'm SURE that there are illegal copies of our software out there! There were before and there will be in the future. What matters is just that we increased profits, since we work for profit
