[ExI] commentary by one of ours

[Aware]

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:00 AM, Eugen Leitl <eugen at leitl.org> wrote:
>
> 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.

I think it's interesting that both sides of the DRM debate focus on
paying (or not) for product, with no thought of instead paying for
production.

- Jef