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More useful tech destroyed by DRM. How long are we as an industry going to keep this up? The only DRM that's even remotely defensible is like what KDE's PDF v
by dlitz 11y ago
More useful tech destroyed by DRM. How long are we as an industry going to keep this up?
The only DRM that's even remotely defensible is like what KDE's PDF viewer has: a checkbox that says "Enforce DRM restrictions". For that, we don't need anything more than a couple of flags and some copyright metadata.
- mseebach 11y ago> we as an industry Step 0: There is no "we". There are millions of individuals in thousands of companies across dozens of industries with wildly divergent goals, priorities and philosophies.
- corobo 11y ago> How long are we as an industry going to keep this up? Depends who you ask. I imagine the RIAAs and the MPAAs would respond "We'll keep doing it until people stop pirating". Otherwise the response would be along the line of "Until they realise it doesn't stop us pirating anyway" People will always pirate digital goods, so there'll always be DRM.