02-19-2012, 10:44 PM | #16 |
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If ignorance is the reason publishers are thinking DRM is going to work, shouldn't they be making it their business to educate themselves about it? It's the same deal with the idiots who thought up SOPA and PIPA. Their own ignorance in the matter is what's losing them their money.
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They were either incompetently ignorant, in which case they should have been fired, or so blinded by greed that they thought they could push water uphill. Personally I think it's more likely the second option, either way they are certainly to blame. |
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02-20-2012, 05:26 AM | #18 |
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This article pretty much proves that media companies truly do not understand how the digital economy actually works and what the modern customer is demanding AND expecting.
You might want to look up now, because that asteroid is getting rather large... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/201...-content.shtml |
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Here's Apple's Phil Schiller from May 2003, just after the iTunes Music Store opened: Quote:
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There was one time where we borrowed a DVD from the library and the only media player it listened to was the ripper! We had to copy it just to watch it! (we are linux users and watch all of our dvds on the dvd drive and the media player programs on our computer, we don't have tv) |
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02-20-2012, 08:17 AM | #23 | |
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thank god for things like netflix and the increase in streaming which killed any unenthusiastic interest i had in rebuying the same movies yet again in blu-ray. and i simply and utterly refuse to do the same thing for books. its not even an option on the table. at the least, at the very least, until they invent brain implants digital is the technological end of the road....unless they invent ereaders that require a new format and won't carry over older ones. |
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Talk to Microsoft. Talk to Adobe. They have DRM systems that work just fine. Working DRM is not impossible. Just sayin'. |
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Adobe and Microsoft products are freely available for download or even purchase at bootleg markets all over Asia. No DRM is truly able to say it is 100% guaranteed to work. Last edited by sabredog; 02-20-2012 at 08:51 AM. |
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DRM only really belongs in rentals and library loans. For people who already buy the book, well, bleeping leave them alone.
That's why, for the most part, I don't buy e-books unless they are DRM free, and/or printed books. I have printed books that I bought in 1975 for crying out loud, that I still own, and can still read, well, because I bought them. I own them. They are mine. Nobody is coming after nearly 40 years later to finger wag me to see if I've still used it properly, it's bleeping mine, and I bought it. Nobody's flipping business if I still possess the ability to read it. Most people do the "fair and legal" because well, buying stuff is the default. Buying stuff isn't always the easiest way to go. Most people I know buy stuff even after having googled the book title and the first hit is TPB or something. Most people just want to be regular people who buy stuff, and then go home and use it. It shouldn't be my job to "learn how to strip DRM" while people whisper in hushed tones that they have the tools. If I bought a book, I bought a book, end of. |
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(Consider the number of posts here about people having problems with Adobe DRM - authorising/deauthorising devices, finding out that they've lost access through not setting it up properly to start with, etc.) Currently ebook publishers have made the fair and legal route harder to use, and the product less useful. And they're now trying to make the fair and legal route comparatively easier by making the illegal route riskier, instead of doing the sensible thing and making the legal route easier and better than the illegal one. |
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And laws to punish downloaders are designed to seek recompense for money they were never going to make in the first place. There will always be enough customers willing to pay for their books to support authors who are writing books that people want to read. Honesty's not dead... no matter what you hear to the contrary. Last edited by DiapDealer; 02-20-2012 at 09:32 AM. |
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The Schiller quote cannot be used for argument that that law enforcement or DRM schemes have no place in an anti piracy strategy. Apple , of all companies, certainly does not believe that. |
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