> If you have all your games on Steam and your system dies ... you just
install Steam and get them all back.
How is that a positive effect of DRM?. You can do the same with free
software. In any case, you should make backups and you can back up free
programs with no complications.
> Have a Kindle? You can manage your books from any computer. Super
convenient, and most people don't care what's going on beyond that.
That has nothing to do with DRM.
> It's a matter of ideology, and relying on qualitative arguments of good/bad
... that just goes nowhere, and this is just a circlejerk.
But I think that you have just argued for the qualitative merits of DRM.
Isn't that exactly the same thing you said that goes nowhere?. I really don't
understand.
> When it comes down to it, DRM is non-free, and that's against the ideals of
free software.
Yes; and it's important to remember that those ideals are a consequence of
wanting control over our own computing. DRM and other forms of treacherous
computing are completely opposite to this.
