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The best part is that none of these restrictions bother the pirates at all. On-disk encryption is a huge novelty for many very smart minds until it is broken, a
by gridspy 17y ago
The best part is that none of these restrictions bother the pirates at all. On-disk encryption is a huge novelty for many very smart minds until it is broken, at which point straight disk copying is trivial.
The "Analog hole" doesn't need plugging when there are fast ways to make a perfect copy of a disc.
- jrockway 17y agoYup. The legitimate users are punished with inconvenience and expensive mandatory hardware purchases. (And, of course, the lack of a Free Software movie player.) Those that pirate it have no inconveniences, no mandatory hardware purchases, and can use a completely Free Software stack. Is the movie industry really surprised that piracy is rampant!?