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Originally Posted by stustaff
To be fair he did say most! And on that he is right, are their exceptions of course but the majority of digital media out there has some thing that stops you reselling it. You can't sell Xbox arcade games or ps3 dl games or your apps etc etc
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Yep, I was just pointing out that Apple is hardly the only company with restrictive DRM.
Not saying there are no DRM free sources out there. Just pointing out that his hate of Apple (illustrated by some trolling in the Apple Devices forum a while back) is showing through there as there are plenty of other companies with the same type of restrictive DRM. So no need to just act like Apple is evil for doing it like no one else does the same thing.
I don't mind DRM much for books as I never re-read anything. When buying digital content with DRM, it just has to be something that I'm ok with paying the asking price knowing I may not have access to it down the road if I switch hardware, the company goes under etc.
If I'm not ok with that, I don't buy it. If it's something I just want to read once, and it's $5-10 (and not more than the print version) I'll pay it just for the convenience of not having a paper copy (or library) to hassle with getting rid of after I've read it.
I view it as a rental or movie ticket more or less I guess--paying to enjoy the content, not to own it per se. But even that's an exaggeration since it's so easy to strip DRM for those so inclined. I'd prefer DRM free, but it's no huge deal to me on something like books, comics etc. that I'll read once anyway.