Some Kind Words For DRM. For Once.

spidweb writes: "The online backlash against DRM has gotten a bit excessive, especially since the purpose of DRM is entirely admirable: To stop thieves and free riders and to help creators actually get paid for their work. The blog The Bottom Feeder calls attention to XBox Live, a place where strong DRM is helping to encourage quality games at low prices which make money for their developers. From the article: "If I could snap my fingers and give myself the same absolute control over the games I make that XBox Live has over theirs (in return for lower prices), I would. The freedom of the current system is nice, but it comes at too high a cost. Honest people need to pay extra to subsidize thieves. The unfairness is just this side of intolerable, and it's only getting worse. DRM is fair if, for what the corporations take, we get something in return.""

Sir Isaac Newton said it best:

[bornagainpenguin]

"To every action there is always an equal and opposite reaction."

It is all very well and nice to say that the backlash against DRM has gone too far, gotten out of hand--but none of your hand-waving can erase the fact it IS a back lash! So whatever excesses you claim to see in the actions or rhetoric of DRM opponents can be laid directly at the feet of those who insisted on shoving it down our throats in the first place.

Also, for all that the proponents of DRM continue to wrap themselves with the ever fr