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Old 02-20-2012, 06:06 AM   #20
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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan View Post
Why? It was largely the pirates who were saying that. "Experts" were telling them that DRM would be effective, and they didn't know enough about software to not believe them.
Apple have been saying it for about a decade. The music industry finally paid attention, and now it's the book publishers making the same mistakes.

Here's Apple's Phil Schiller from May 2003, just after the iTunes Music Store opened:

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Our position, as it was with the iPod, is that the solution to music piracy is not a technological one. No one can make the perfect safe to put things in. And it won't be a legislative solution of someone passing a magic law that stops all piracy.

In the end, the solution will be a behavioral one. Many people will choose the legal and fair route. That's what we hope we've done here -- create something that's in many ways better than the free services.
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