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The Checkout Skewers The DRM Problem

When you buy digital goods, you're not really "buying" anything.

If you've followed the arguments around the DRM restrictions of purchases such as eBooks, Steam Games, mobile apps or movies, The Checkout's take on DRM from last week probably won't tell you anything you didn't already know.

However, if you've always presumed that the books you brought from Amazon or the games you bought from Steam were "yours", it's a solid education in the reality of life in the digital goods age.

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