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The insinuation that opposing DRM has mainly to do with wanting piracy to be easy is a common straw-man. There are many who oppose piracy who also oppose DRM,
by squidbidness 11y ago
The insinuation that opposing DRM has mainly to do with wanting piracy to be easy is a common straw-man. There are many who oppose piracy who also oppose DRM, for very compelling reasons that aren't just limited to edge cases or using obscure devices. For such people, it would be worse if more companies used DRM because it would mean losing the fight against DRM. More and more people who don't care about the issue will be used to dealing with it, and it will be seen as harmless when it's more widespread and ordinary users aren't bothered by it. That is very disheartening to those of us who find DRM seriously threatening to the kinds of grass-roots technological and social innovations that make us so excited about the internet.