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I keep hearing again and again the same argument regarding DRM. I really doubt people (not the technical ones found here) care about DRM. They didn’t care when
by zuppy 7y ago
I keep hearing again and again the same argument regarding DRM. I really doubt people (not the technical ones found here) care about DRM. They didn’t care when the music industry implemented it, see how much the music pirating has fallen. I think what they care about is convenience. The convenience of instant access to hundreds of thousands of books, recommendations, ratings.
- lmm 7y agoYou're right that people care about convenience rather than caring about DRM - but the DRM affects the convenience. Publishers have handed Amazon a monopsony on a platter, because it's just too inconvenient to buy books somewhere else and put them on a Kindle. And that's all down to DRM.
- hnarn 7y agoThis is exactly it. No, people don't care about DRM because they don't know what DRM is: but they care about the actual consequences. DRM makes media harder to consume, share (even to yourself) and secure through backups.