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<blockquote data-quote="Prism" data-source="post: 4742796" data-attributes="member: 9501"><p>DRM just doesn't work. Someone has to pay to develop it (or license it from someone) and then it gets hacked pretty much straight away. All it does is annoy the paying customer by preventing backups and copies etc making it again more likely people will pirate or avoid the product. The music industry has pretty much moved away from DRM now. One of the biggest profile stories of last year in the gaming industry was the release of Spore which had DRM built in. People avoided it en mass and it was hacked and uploaded in one day</p><p></p><p>All wizards have to do is decide if they make more or less cash by accepting pirates and selling pdfs - or not at all. The only real difference is that it takes a few days for someone to be bothered to scan the entire book, which is what happened in the 3e days. I doubt they are going to make any more sales because of that delay</p><p></p><p>Personally I find pdfs far more useful than paper books so I'm pretty annoyed by this.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Prism, post: 4742796, member: 9501"] DRM just doesn't work. Someone has to pay to develop it (or license it from someone) and then it gets hacked pretty much straight away. All it does is annoy the paying customer by preventing backups and copies etc making it again more likely people will pirate or avoid the product. The music industry has pretty much moved away from DRM now. One of the biggest profile stories of last year in the gaming industry was the release of Spore which had DRM built in. People avoided it en mass and it was hacked and uploaded in one day All wizards have to do is decide if they make more or less cash by accepting pirates and selling pdfs - or not at all. The only real difference is that it takes a few days for someone to be bothered to scan the entire book, which is what happened in the 3e days. I doubt they are going to make any more sales because of that delay Personally I find pdfs far more useful than paper books so I'm pretty annoyed by this. [/QUOTE]
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