Right, and you point out something important which is that people who don’t want to pay, people who are pirates, don’t get bothered by the DRM, they go out and buy the cracked books or download the cracked books for free. It’s only people who are foolish enough to pay for them that get locked into these platforms.
Interpretation
DRM (Digital Rights Management) fails to deter those who seek free access to content, leaving honest consumers at a disadvantage.
Cory Doctorow highlights the irony of Digital Rights Management (DRM) systems in his quote. He suggests that those who are inclined to pirate content will bypass these protections effortlessly, while honest consumers, who are willing to pay, find themselves restricted by the very systems meant to protect them. This illustrates the often counterproductive nature of DRM and raises questions about consumer rights and the effectiveness of such measures in the digital age.
In practice
During a panel on copyright, this quote can illustrate the frustrations of legitimate consumers.
Content isn't king. If I sent you to a desert island and gave you the choice of taking your friends or your movies, you'd choose your friends -- if you chose the movies, we'd call you a sociopath. Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
He hated it when adults told him he only felt the way he did because he was young. As if being young was like being insane or drunk, like the convictions he held were hallucinations caused by a mental illness that could only be cured by waiting five years.
... the Kindle is a "roach motel" device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.
Mobile phones are misnamed. They should be called gateways to human knowledge.
Java and C++ make you think that the new ideas are like the old ones. Java is the most distressing thing to hit computing since MS-DOS.
To me, it looks more or less like the hardware designers have run out of ideas and that they're trying to pass the blame for the future demise of Moore's Law to the software writers by giving us machines that work faster only on a few key benchmarks!
Software is a great combination between artistry and engineering.
Most of 'big data' is a fraud because it is really 'dumb data.'
This is perhaps the most beautiful time in human history; it is really pregnant with all kinds of creative possibilities made possible by science and technology which now constitute the slave of man - if man is not enslaved by it.
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