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Originally Posted by shadowjk View Post
Pushing music/content that randomly stops working when the providers shuts off their drm servers (hello Yahoo, MS), or the provider in a Big Brother moment decides you can't have the file (hello Amazon), or you hose your OS and reinstall, etc, is a very user-hostile thing to do... Inexperienced users might get burned by DRM once and lose their files, after that they'll surely stick to piracy...
Not that I condone it, but when the choice is between paying for broken stuff that doesn't work, and not paying for stuff that works, something is wrong...
You heard about my problem with tesco, didn't you!?!

No, I haven't resorted to piracy, but that's exactly what happened: tesco randomly decided to redesign their website and wipe my history. No more "If you have a problem, you can just redownload". I will never buy drm again.
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