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Originally Posted by HarryT
That is a morally bankrupt argument.
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Great, and by the time you've chased down the people who've made unauthorised copies and strung them up, you've bled customers. What about your moral responsibility to the people whose content you're distributing to maximise their sales? This isn't to say you need to praise unauthorised copying, but trying to pretend there is only one moral dynamic at work here is incorrect.
Once again, there is no evidence that removing DRM reduces sales, but the opposite. And the same goes for the high street food shops introducing the self-service terminals. This dosn't mean removing all the checks, it means removing
certain types of checks (DRM).
pdurrant - As to that, they don't want people to pirate other people's cheaper content! Indeed, if you look at, say, Maya there is a
very good reason they launched Maya PLE. It's to ensure that the barriers to learning Maya are low, and then companies will thus buy Maya for commercial use.
Before Maya PLE, the majority of people who learned Maya before working in a commercial environment did so on unauthorised copies. And that learning drove Maya
sales...
This is a
far from isolated instance in the software world.