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Old 04-01-2005, 09:02 AM  
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From the viewpoint of the technically savvy consumer, DRM is *always* bad. Not because the savvy consumer is a pirate, but because DRM says "you have to view and store this on *my* terms, not yours."

In the mainstream world or the porn world, I won't buy something subject to DRM if I have *any* alternative. Unique content unlike any other, available no other way, perhaps. But how many of you really have that?

DRM is customer-hostile. End of story. If you treat your customers like shoplifters, they are *more* likely to shoplift, not less. Bad business, as the PC game distributors discovered twenty years ago.
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