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> good DRM is transparent and unnoticeable, and if that is the case then users do not care. Then there's no such thing as good DRM, since many users will want
by 0815test 8y ago
> good DRM is transparent and unnoticeable, and if that is the case then users do not care.
Then there's no such thing as good DRM, since many users will want to make use of the content they've paid for (either monetarily, or perhaps indirectly via ads) in flexible and open ways that a proprietary DRM system will not allow. Fair use is part of this, but not the only issue.
- hombre_fatal 8y agoMeanwhile I bet everyone here and /r/gaming uses Steam without thinking about it where you can't even click and drag an .exe to your buddy on a long flight and you need to log into it every X days for it to let you play offline. To be clear, I'm definitely happy to support gog.com and thankful that they exist and are successful. But look how many HNers will bring up Kindles and buying books for them on Amazon where you can only "lend" a book from kindle to kindle (forget drag and drop) through their proprietary system. Every day 90%+ of people are happy with systems that use DRM and don't even notice it exists. Most people just don't ever go off the rails. It's one of the worse things about DRM: trying to position your product as DRM-free and people just go "wtf is that? it never bothered me before."