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Originally Posted by pdurrant
The available evidence is that this is not true. DRM has not been shown increase sales of books, and costs money to implement.
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Right as usual, but I was trying to make a point about long term durability/availability. Consider how much early history of videogames is being lost due to DRM. What little that is surviving is due to "pirates". And by early history, I mean late '70's through the late '80s. Most of the companies involved went broke, and the titles involved went out of print, and often were for machine that haven't been produced for years. (how long has it been since somebody made an Atari 800 machine? Shucks, games from the early IBM DOS era are just as bad off.) Yet without a machine, (and 5 and 1/4 inch floppies with machine specific controllers) such software will fall away and disappear over the next hundred years of so. All due to DRM.