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What's the point then? How does DRM improve the user experience? Why should you have to break it?

• paulryanrogers 3y ago
  DRM reduces casual piracy during the critical first wave of sales, or at least that's the thinking. If DRM were illegal or impossible then fewer works may get published. Ergo there would be less to choose from.
  • treyd 3y ago
    Is there any evidence that DRM actually leads to more works getting published long term or is this just a oft repeated anecdote? It's trying to force the logic of commodities into a medium where it does not naturally exist.
    • izacus 3y ago
      There has actually been several studies with proofs that DRM does nothing, but this is an emotional issue ("My feelings tell me that evil thieves need to be stopped even if I crap on users!") and proofs don't matter.