Re: [tlug] Re: [CoLoCo] RESPECT MICROSOFT

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@example.com>]

Keith Bawden writes:

 > By this do you mean the consumer segment of the market is demanding
 > it? Or, as I suspect, the producer segment of the market.

I mean that if you provide it you will find that it generates a bigger
profit for you, with the direct source of revenue being consumers.

 > At this stage I think it is the producers that are demanding DRM be
 > used.

Verbally, yes.  No sane consumer wants it for itself; it's annoying
and fragile even if you're honest.

 > Hopefully as people become more aware of the negative impact DRM
 > represents they, the consumers, will drive the demand away from DRM.

If content the consumers want is available only in DRM'ed format, they
will demand DRM at the same time that they decry it.  Just as they do
with BrokenWindows[tm], itself.