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Short Story: A few weeks ago, I had trouble to connect my Sennheiser Headphones to a bluetooth splitter. So I downloaded the manual and after some time I found

Short Story: A few weeks ago, I had trouble to connect my Sennheiser Headphones to a bluetooth splitter. So I downloaded the manual and after some time I found what I was doing wrong. To let me find the critical part faster next time, I wanted to highlight the relevant part of the manual. Sadly the manual was DRM protected and didn't want to let me annotate the manual... So I had to find a way to work around it, but I felt like a criminal, just because I wanted to use a highlighter on the digital manual of a physical product I bought.

colejohnson66 6y ago
What is even the point of DRM protected manuals? I can understand it on book, but manuals? Piracy of a manual isn’t going to affect sales of the product; I (almost all the time) have no need for the manual if I don’t own the product.
- macjohnmcc 6y ago
  Maybe they want to avoid anybody who copies their hardware from copying the manual. About the only thing I can see but at that point you lost the war.