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Originally Posted by ficbot
I can see why the publishers may want DRM but you have not adequately explained to me why I customer should 'want' it. I am not sure why you are so ardently campaigning for it. What possible benefit could there be to an end user to have to go through such things? I just don't get where the benefit would be for the customer to the point that they should willingly choose to embrace DRM and *want* it.
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I'm pretty sure the original poster doesn't really want DRM either, but the assumption is that the Publishers will never go for a completely open system. He's offering a compromise that attempts to still give the Publishers what they want, but is more lenient in honoring consumer rights as well.
As I said previously though, I don't think this is really a technical question. Coming up with different schemes/systems isn't where we should be focusing our attention. The current system could theoretically do what he's talking about, if Publishers wanted it to. This is really a business model question. The technical specifics of HOW to do it are fairly irrelevant.