Why you would avoid DRM
Okay may be the title of this post isn’t telling the full story. To that you’ll have to read this post.
Mark is on a roll with his exhaustive take on long term data preservation and about how migrating incessantly between formats tends to leave you with crap eventually.
Long-term data preservation is like long-term backup: a series of short-term formats, punctuated by a series of migrations.
This discussion, to me, has deep roots in the argument that the “my data is mine alone, even if the software I used to create it is licensed to me”. Why can’t software makers and company respect that and help us users achieve that?
Why do I avoid DRM? Because the entire point of DRM is to make migration impossible, to reduce the fidelity of your conversion to 0.
I may be a sucker to everything he writes, but what am I to do if everything he says really makes sense to me?