Let's try to look at the bright side of DRM and things like Palladium. The existence of a mechanism that disallows unauthorized execution of software should allow users to return and get a refund on some piece of crap that doesn't work as advertised, that has only one good song on it, etc. This whole ridiculous policy of "no returns of opened software" should just disappear, and if it does, so will the purveyors of garbage wrapped in pretty boxes. I would happily pay even $30 for a CD if I knew that I could get my money back because, after a week, I decided that the CD didn't live up to my expectations. Believe me, at $30 I'd still be ahead. I have no problem with rights management as long as the rights cut both ways.
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Let's try to look at the bright side of DRM and things like Palladium. The existence of a mechanism that disallows unauthorized execution of software should allow users to return and get a refund on some piece of crap that doesn't work as advertised, that has only one good song on it, etc. This whole ridiculous policy of "no returns of opened software" should just disappear, and if it does, so will the purveyors of garbage wrapped in pretty boxes. I would happily pay even $30 for a CD if I knew that I could get my money back because, after a week, I decided that the CD didn't live up to my expectations. Believe me, at $30 I'd still be ahead. I have no problem with rights management as long as the rights cut both ways.