mad_crease: For not caring, you sure took a lot of time to post your biased interpretation. We are OH so glad you spent years reading and studying posts and forums to be the almighty go to for what DRM means. TY by the way for sharing your vast knowledge base with the little people..
What I don't care about is how other people arbitrarily define what DRM means, since there is no official accepted industry wide definition to point to as to what it means, such discussions often simply derail into people arguing over their own biased opinions about it rather than anything factual or logical. While I have engaged in such discussions in the past myself, I think that they are genuinely a waste of time for everyone involved, and that includes the time I myself have spent in the past discussing it. Intelligent respectful discourse could occur where people express what their thoughts are and respectfully might disagree with someone else's own opinion but that almost never seems to be the case in actuality. And that is why I find such discussions largely not useful.
That doesn't mean that I don't have opinions about things myself, nor that I have nothing to share in discussions surrounding the topic, but I'm not going to express what my own views are in detail just to go down the very rabbit hole that leads to nowhere that I know would result.
Nowhere did I claim to be an authority on what DRM means and that you should come to me to find out. Quite the opposite in fact, that nobody is an authority and that any people arguing with each other about it is just a waste of time to both of those people. In a sense what my response was, is encouraging others to NOT argue with each other about it because that is pretty pointless and often divisive. By all means have the opinions regardless of what they are, but hopefully recognize the futility of trying to convince the rest of the world to agree with whatever those opinions might be.
Note that I neither expressed my opinion about what DRM is nor tried to convince anyone else to agree with me in any of what I've said above. If anything, I encourage everyone to think for themselves, do their own research and form their own opinions, whether or not I might agree with their conclusions.
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