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The big DRM mistake
Scott Granneman, 2006-03-01

Digital Rights Managements hurts paying customers, destroys Fair Use rights, renders customers' investments worthless, and can always be defeated. Why are consumers and publishers being forced to use DRM?

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Re: Re: When you buy copyrighted material, you are BUYING IT, not licencing it 2006-03-02
Anonymous
The original poster was referring to the law: it is quite clear that when you buy a CD or a book you own it outright, you are not licensing the content as they would like. (See wikipedia Fair Use page for legal info). So the author is wrong about this. The EULA will only be valid if a court holds th...

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