[ExI] commentary by one of ours

[Eugen Leitl]

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 09:15:34PM -0800, spike wrote:
> Interesting commentary by Charlie Stross:
> 
> http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2011/11/cutting-their-own-throat
> s.html

Everyone but the publishers knows DRM is stillborn.

It only inconveniences the paying customers. DRM is trivially
removed (e.g. via Calibre) and if all things fail putting
an e-Ink device on an OCR scanner will get rid of DRM and any
potential watermarks in the bargain.

The only way which is going to work is by offering DRM-free
products cheap enough that pirates don't bother.