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> iTunes DRM was why I've bought more songs than I would've pirated. Which DRM are you talking about? iTunes hasn't had DRM on music for years. Like you said,
by __david__ 14y ago
> iTunes DRM was why I've bought more songs than I would've pirated.
Which DRM are you talking about? iTunes hasn't had DRM on music for years. Like you said, iTunes being convenient is what makes it good. But iTunes is even better now that the DRM is gone (I can now play the songs I bought on non-Apple devices). I fail to see how you can argue that DRM doesn't make things worse.
- sillysaurus 14y agoI fail to see how you can argue that DRM doesn't make things worse. My observation is that iTunes wouldn't have happened had they refused to implement DRM, not that DRM has merit. Nobody wants DRM except those who hold power over content. In order to subvert them, we need to outmaneuver them, not refuse to play. In this light, iTunes is an excellent example of a DRM success story: fewer people with power over music content care to insist on music DRM. Providers of content in other domains (e.g. books) will stop insisting on DRM when we demonstrate to them that systems without it are fundamentally more profitable in their domain than systems with it. I think this is doable, but not if we refuse to demonstrate it. They'll simply force people to switch platforms.