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		justincormack on Feb 17, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why are you people defending Apple? To stop subscribers copying all the content and then unsubscribing. For services where most of the value is in the back catalogue this is a risk.

Natsu on Feb 17, 2011 [–]

If that's all the value you're offering your users, DRM is the least of your problems. If it's that easy for users to exhaust the content they actually want, you're going to have problems with customer retention, not to mention customer acquisition.

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