[shiven]

By making it a part of a "standard", you help spreading the disease. Right now, the fact that DRM is implemented via Flash paints it as 'painful-to-use'. Once you implement it without the pain that is Flash, you have removed the barrier that is slowing the spread of DRM.

[aaronem]

Yes. Because heaven forfend anyone should get paid. One cannot serve both God and Mammon.

[darklajid]

Right. Because without DRM, people don't get paid?

Your argument (here) is not better than the STD comparison: Apples, oranges, no relevant content.

Isn't most of the (digital!) music market DRM free by now? How does that EVEN WORK?

[chris_wot]

Actually, DRM systems prevent me from seeing content I'm willing to purchase. I tried to buy the Dragon Book on Kindle some time ago, but I couldn't because I live in Australia.

What was that about getting paid again?

[curiousdannii]

Or any active content! Why would Amazon sell apps in only North America?!

[chris_wot]

It's called geoblocking. The Australian Senate held hearings into it. Fun fact: I was looking to buy Cowboy Bebop and Star Trek: The Next Generation on iTunes. Not available, but definitely available in the U.S. App Store.

[mmagin]

Even before streaming, the media publishing industries have been into segmenting the world into different markets for the same product: For example: books separately published in the US and the UK, DVDs and Blu-Ray disks with region codes that prevent playing on the other region players (providing they're players which obey this flag.)

[chris_wot]

Time to disrupt these arseholes.

[curiousdannii]

But unlike most other media there's no other way to purchase them. I can't buy DVDs of Kindle active content, I can't get it off ebay.

I guess they mustn't consider the international market worth the trouble of solving whatever legal issue is stopping them from selling them to other countries.

[Zigurd]

My publisher pays me and all their other authors and uses no DRM on e-books. They sell more e-book because it isn't a hassle to move them around. They are a big enough publisher that if their sales and revenue significantly diverged from industry norms they would rethink that policy. On the other hand, I don't know of anyone going out of business for lack of DRM.