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I'm genuinely curious - what is the "light" side of DRM?
by pmlnr 7y ago
I'm genuinely curious - what is the "light" side of DRM?
- awakeasleep 7y agoAllows businesses to extract greater profits from their existing portfolio
- pmlnr 7y agoIn the end, most of the world's problems can be traced back greed. I suggest to add the word "profit" to the list of synonyms of greed.
- scarface74 7y agoDo you work for a for profit company?
- cheerlessbog 7y agoI can pay $10 a month to listen to any song anywhere. I assume it would cost more if I could trivially download them and stop paying. For me that is something positive. But I'm well aware in this case that I'm not purchasing any long term licenses.
- pbhjpbhj 7y agoI think you may have it backwards -- it was trivial to download and listen to music and movies (Napster, Popcorntime, etc.) -- which provided pressure to produce low cost, high availability media sources. People in general want to support artists/creators and be law-abiding. Once the media corps provided easy, reasonable cost, ways to get enough of the media then people shied away from the copyright infringement that had otherwise become the easiest way to consume such media.
- h2odragon 7y agoupdates, enhancements, customer communication... none of which are notably wanting for ebooks, or require DRM.
- chocolatkey 7y agoPublishers are more willing to trust you with their collections if you can ensure them that your platform won't be a hotbed for piracy of their content (I've worked on multiple "protection" systems for localized Japanese comics, and publishers want to know what DRM you're using and if it's strong/safe).