I wasn't trying to inflate the importance of my argument. I was offering a guess of a possible range, given that there aren't any statistics. That's a common thing to do, and I would do it again.
If I had to guess, I'd probably say about 5% of the US population in toto has heard of DRM and could define it to a reasonable approximation. (That's about 15 million people.)
You chose to take the higher number in my range for me to "prove." I called you on it.
There are about 5.8 million people in the tech industry in the US. I've worked in some pretty big tech shops (and some small ones) in the US. Almost everyone I've worked with has heard of DRM, no matter what they think of it.
But assuming even only 10% of them have heard of DRM (an extremely low estimate) that'd be 580,000 people right there.
That's not proof, as there can't be any such thing in this case.
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I wasn't trying to inflate the importance of my argument. I was offering a guess of a possible range, given that there aren't any statistics. That's a common thing to do, and I would do it again.
If I had to guess, I'd probably say about 5% of the US population in toto has heard of DRM and could define it to a reasonable approximation. (That's about 15 million people.)
You chose to take the higher number in my range for me to "prove." I called you on it.
There are about 5.8 million people in the tech industry in the US. I've worked in some pretty big tech shops (and some small ones) in the US. Almost everyone I've worked with has heard of DRM, no matter what they think of it.
But assuming even only 10% of them have heard of DRM (an extremely low estimate) that'd be 580,000 people right there.
That's not proof, as there can't be any such thing in this case.