I don't agree with that, but I do think that DRM in general is damaging and mainly punishes people who don't pirate. All DRM can be cracked or worked around, through the analog hole if nothing else, and if there's sufficient interest in a artistic or literary work, it will become generally available on the Internet with or without DRM.
The only place where DRM makes a real difference is in less-popular works, since it increases the barrier to pirate and they might not reach the heightened threshold. Popular works will already surpass that barrier; no amount of DRM will change that. It is debatable, I suppose, whether the higher exposure easy piracy provides to lesser-known works ends up making up for the readers who don't pay.
I don't think that legalizing file-sharing and instituting a quasi-communist author-compensation scheme is the answer (enact an Internet tax and have it paid to the artists based on the cube root of their popularity on p2p, BitTorrent, etc.). I do, however, think a new model is required for the new technology.
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