DRM is not very effective at protecting static targets—such as a large installed base of identical DVD players—where one crack can compromise all the content. It’s rather better at protecting content which is more dynamic—such as software—where each game can ship with its own type of polymorphic DRM.
Despite a massive base of installed readers, Kindle DRM has been somewhat effective—despite being cracked. Much content that people are prepared to pay for has not, in practice, been ripped yet.
Much content that people are prepared to pay for has not, in practice, been ripped yet.
Evidence, numbers? (This is my second request for evidence and numbers.) There’s a long tail of books available for Kindle that have approximately no readers.
People buy stuff because they think they should and it’s easy to, not because of DRM. (This was the surprise for the record industry that the iTunes model actually worked—they had previously been creating terrible music stores that didn’t work just for the purpose of creating evidence that filesharing was costing them actual money.)
DRM is not very effective at protecting static targets—such as a large installed base of identical DVD players—where one crack can compromise all the content. It’s rather better at protecting content which is more dynamic—such as software—where each game can ship with its own type of polymorphic DRM.
Despite a massive base of installed readers, Kindle DRM has been somewhat effective—despite being cracked. Much content that people are prepared to pay for has not, in practice, been ripped yet.
Evidence, numbers? (This is my second request for evidence and numbers.) There’s a long tail of books available for Kindle that have approximately no readers.
People buy stuff because they think they should and it’s easy to, not because of DRM. (This was the surprise for the record industry that the iTunes model actually worked—they had previously been creating terrible music stores that didn’t work just for the purpose of creating evidence that filesharing was costing them actual money.)