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Originally Posted by ysss View Post
If you don't want their product in the first place, then you're not a potential customer of them anyway. Moot.

To get the correct perspective, substitute the content with something that you would likely purchase (movies, music album, games, etc that you want and are willing to pay for).

Now, if there is a content publisher that you like and respect, perhaps you'd care about the phenomena of irresponsible people pirating their goods too.
Not true, there have been some games on the PC that I have been interested in buying but I do not want the DRM crap (rootkits etc) that comes with them so I will just skip it completely! Also some of the newer mechanisms they are coming up with are basically killing off the second hand market for games which is only bad for the consumer - see http://www.engadget.com/2010/02/18/s...ame-hits-used/

Same goes for Music, If I buy it and have no desire to share it with others then why should I be punished for it with features limiting what I can do with it i.e. the three device limit they used to impose (computer, mp3 player, phone and thats it!) and the fact that not all devices could even read the DRM in the first place!

DRM is bad news for honest people, if you are dishonest then DRM is only a delay in the cracking process... Locks and Alarms do not stop cars being stolen, they only delay the process for the determined thief, DRM is similar... NOTE: I am not proposing we abandon locks and car alarms anytime soon it is just an analogy!!!

I guess I was lucky with the angry birds level pack as I managed to buy it before it was taken down but now I am getting annoyed that the sygic maps app still has not been released and I think it is due to this problem so yet again the honest consumer gets punished by having to wait longer while they shore up the defenses against the dishonest... Very annoying...