Originally Posted by raymor

You forget that DRM makes absolutely no difference to the guys who are responsible
for 93% of the stolen content. Only about 7% is shared by casual users rather than
"professional" or "hardcore" rippers. Of that 7%, DRM might cut that in half, for a total
reduction of about 3.5%. The other 96.5% is still out there, so you've pissed off your
members, but really not done any good since 96.5% of your content is still out there.

All of the big music sites, itunes, napster, amazon, Wal-mart, all spent millions setting
up DRM systems to sell music. All eventually gave up on that idea and started selling
plain MP3s because they all found that DRM doesn't work. You're advocating
something that has proven time and again to be a complete FAIL. Your post might
have made since in 1998, before we knew better, but we tried that and it doesn't work.
Even when Microsoft spent tens of millions on DRM2 it was a complete and utter failure.