"Walter Bright" <newshou...@digitalmars.com> wrote in message news:ito7i8$1tb7$1...@digitalmars.com... > On 6/20/2011 12:13 PM, Nick Sabalausky wrote: >> I've been guessing that will only happen when DRM starts going away. Than >> again, most consumers are complete morons...(The "dancing pigs" theory >> and >> all that...) > > Notice that DRM has faded away on downloadable music.
Has it? I really haven't been paying attention to (legally) downloadable music since when I did look at it, it was all either heavily DRMed or MP3. I know the iTunes store started offering DRM-less stuff, but they were charging extra for it, so I wasn't interested (especially since I could rip the DRM out myself). > I suspect there will be increasing pressure to remove it for books, too. > I hope so. Then I'd likely be interested in an ebook reader.