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Originally Posted by J. Strnad
The free market system is fine for many things, but really, is all-out warfare really the best way to get this job done?
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Oh, don't worry; any day now tthe french will notice that ebooks are real and they'll set up a euro-standard ePub DRM to bypass Adobe, Apple, and B&N's proprietary solutions. Then there won't be two or three but five to choose from.
In truth, I expect the dust-up will be settled in a couple of years; it's not going to take decades or centuries. And, all jesting aside, the only way to settle the issue of DRM is for the issue to get bad enough *everybody* agrees it needs to be settled. So the first thing that needs to happen is for DRM to get *really* annoying for a *lot* of people. Which it is starting to be.
Short-term pain, long-term gain.
In the meantime, the wise buy DRM-free.
