[ggg2]

that's the sort of elitist behaviour that plagues digital world.

dvd locked by region? don't worry, more expensive models can be bypassed by those two button presses, only the poor is really impacted.

tracking users and OS security bugs, don't worry, the latest $600+ devices will get a patch. only poor, used device buyers and developing countries models will be affected by not receiving a patch.

the modern world now is divided into the elite and the not-economically-viable-to-port-security-patches. And everytime we, the elite, dismiss something as a nuisance because we are the elite, we are making things irreparably worse.

my sugestion: do not give in to drm because you can work around it. instead pay the extra cents and get a used hardcopy. the convenience of a ebook is lost if you have to work around a drm anyway. and that way their drm sales drop to zero and they have to rethink this whole falacy.

The number of people accepting DRM content is used as a sales pitch by Pearson printing to force universities to use DRM text books that can't be resold! again, screw the poor, right?

PS: sorry for the rant. DRM makes me salty.