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by awesome_dude 248 days ago
No.

For one thing, DRM also works in Amazon's favour (reselling multiple copies)

For another, DRM is a pretty big sticking point for copyright holders, music, text, whatever. It's the one big thing that publishers all think that their business model depends on

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Arguably not so much with music anymore given the prolific nature of lossless DRM free downloads available for purchase.

Personally, I buy more music now than any other time in my life: high quality sources playable on all my devices.

Most music is sold without digital restrictions, and many video games are also sold without digital restrictions.
> Most music is sold without digital restrictions

Thanks to Apple

>many video games are also sold without digital restrictions

Thanks to GoG and (to a lesser extent) Steam

>No.

The point you are responding to is at least partially true. Re-read it and see. Your brutal "No" only serves to discredit your own (partially true) argument.