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Originally Posted by markbot
DRM free media with users who support and defend copyright will never happen because of human nature. Look at Asia...probably 90% of music is stolen...if not more.
If stealing cannot be detected and there is no threat of punishment of any kind....legal or social...people will steal. In classical criminology this is the hedonistic calculus. But it gets worse since there is actually a social acceptance and encouragement of stealing music. Books will not be far behind if there is no DRM.
I would not like to destroy the intellectual capital of future generations just so we can transfer a book from a sony reader to a kindle, and vice versa.
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I think you are painting it a bit too black and white. Has the music industry been destroyed for all future generations by removing DRM? I don't think so.
Literature is not that different.