Comment by ineedasername
7 years ago
> Why not reward creators who choose to distribute their works without DRM?
Your average author doesn't have a choice in this, they have no clout to dictate terms to their publishers over the inclusion of DRM
7 years ago
> Why not reward creators who choose to distribute their works without DRM?
Your average author doesn't have a choice in this, they have no clout to dictate terms to their publishers over the inclusion of DRM
But it is us, consumers, who don't give the authors the clout they need, by continuing to buy DRM'd content.
Because we rarely have the choice. I'd wager it's a conservative estimate to say 90% of published content is under drm restrictions. I wouldn't be surprised if it was more like 99%.
And what of students with textbooks? Zero choice for alternatives there, and increasingly even the physical versions all come with required drmed additional single-use content making resale value of the book worhtless when once it was a source of a bit of extra money after spending hundreds on them at the start of the semester.