Re:One Year Later, the Results of Tor Books UK Going DRM-Free
by ChuckMcM on Tuesday April 30, 2013 @02:18PM
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Another great piece of hard data to try to put a stake in the DRM myth. (which is only partially myth, since it's true that if the good is priced way too high DRM is the only way to get even some people to pay that price).
Reminds me a bit of when Lotus took DRM off Lotus 1-2-3 in the 80s. Prior to that you had to have the disk that Lotus installed from in the floppy drive at all times. Totally sucked. They dropped DRM, sales went up, and their support costs went down (paying customers affected by DRM make support calls, pirates dealing with DRM do not usually :-)
Reminds me a bit of when Lotus took DRM off Lotus 1-2-3 in the 80s. Prior to that you had to have the disk that Lotus installed from in the floppy drive at all times. Totally sucked. They dropped DRM, sales went up, and their support costs went down (paying customers affected by DRM make support calls, pirates dealing with DRM do not usually :-)