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Originally Posted by random50
I completely agree with you there. I stopped buying music many years ago, shortly after buying an Ipod, because I objected to paying as much or more (as CDs) for an inferior product *artifically* tied to a single player. By the time I learned it was actually easy to crack the DRM, I'd long got out of the habit of listening to new stuff.
I stopped buying most PC games a couple of years ago when they practically all converted to requiring the disc in the drive and/or limited activations. Now I usually only buy them after they've been cracked, at considerably lower profit margins for all involved (and I use the superior cracked version - I wonder how many like me are represented in the piracy figures?)
Ebook DRM I can live with...so far...because of the convenience factor. However, if they were to come up with DRM whose cracking requires serious inconvenience, I would probably reconsider.
I don't know how representative I am of the general population (it's easy to overestimate), but certainly in my case, DRM has cost the associated industries several thousand a year.
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I think nobody here is defending DRM. It would only make sense if it couldn't be hacked. And such DRM is impossible. Besides, DRM is impeding sales because even honest customers dislike it. Actually, the industry is slowly beginning to see it this way, too. Otherwise why would Sony move from LRX to Epub? And why would the publishers keep using ADE while they know it can easily be cracked?