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Originally Posted by DMcCunney
I object to DRM, but it's practical, not moral. I thing DRM is counter-productive and ultimately futile.
It's like computer security: the perfectly secure computer is the perfectly unusable one. The more security measures you put in place, the harder it is for the user to actually do any work with it. (And users can be endlessly creative about bypassing security...)
DRM is the same. Make it hard enough for people to get and read their books, and they find ways around it. And most DRM systems are relatively easy to crack.
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We must agree to differ about that, I'm afraid. I feel personally that MobiPocket's DRM system is fair - you can have up to 5 devices registered, and it's easy to add or remove them at any time - and unobjectionable; it doesn't "get in the way" of reading the book in any way at all. That's why I'm now "standardising" on devices which will read MoibPocket.