&gt;  the guy who wrote the education curriculum ought to be paid<p>He absolutely should be!<p>&gt; how are they supposed to get a reasonable amount of money without denying non-payers access to their works<p>Good question! But I don&#x27;t think there is a good answer to it that doesn&#x27;t involve society at large, in one way or another. Why is enforcing DRM in order to protect some monopoly by society at large better than community investment into the technology by society at large?<p>&gt; the &quot;other ways&quot; that we&#x27;re trying to steer manufacturers away from are not a clearly delineated set of behaviors<p>I think that&#x27;s case with all laws and all human behaviors. That&#x27;s why we have judges, to make judgements.<p>&gt; they&#x27;ll cripple them in hardware<p>I think they should try that. So far they didn&#x27;t - that&#x27;s why they are doing it in software, because they now can.<p>&gt; two different products with different features at two different prices<p>Yep, and if that happens, it&#x27;s bad for economy overall, that&#x27;s what I argue.