I am on the "DRM is more bad than good" camp. As an example, I point out Elektor magazine, which provides non-DRM PDFs of their magazine (in addition to the print version). My (admittedly limited) impression is that its made their "product" much better, and more valuable. I can treat the digital version just like my print copy (yes, even lend it), and that's a good thing. The valuable part of a magazine is the ideas in it, not the medium it's printed/rendered on. I feel that Elektor has done an excellent job of making the value of their product center around the information they provide, which easily justifies paying for it. And one way they've done that is to *not* argue that the medium is part of that value.
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I am on the "DRM is more bad than good" camp. As an example, I point out Elektor magazine, which provides non-DRM PDFs of their magazine (in addition to the print version). My (admittedly limited) impression is that its made their "product" much better, and more valuable. I can treat the digital version just like my print copy (yes, even lend it), and that's a good thing. The valuable part of a magazine is the ideas in it, not the medium it's printed/rendered on. I feel that Elektor has done an excellent job of making the value of their product center around the information they provide, which easily justifies paying for it. And one way they've done that is to *not* argue that the medium is part of that value.