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DRM doesn't prevent privacy, it only professionalizes it. At some point the data is decrypted and crackers will take the data from there. You can only make copy
by legulere 10y ago
DRM doesn't prevent privacy, it only professionalizes it. At some point the data is decrypted and crackers will take the data from there. You can only make copying harder, but not impossible. Pretty soon after release everything lands on the pirate bay.
The only people that are hindered are legitimate costumers. The playback might not work, because the monitor/projector because it doesn't support HDCP. With movies on Blurays they can't make copies for backups/to play the movie without a disc spinning/to play the movie on a device without a bluray drive. My sister cuts music pieces together for dancing, you can't do that with drm'd music. Pirating media often is hassle-free compared to the legal way.
The problem for customers is that compared to buying analog media or digital media without DRM you are restricted to simple playback and also in certified settings (certain programs, devices etc.). With streamed media the issue is not as bad, as you can compare it more to renting, but there are also issues (e.g. I need crappy silverlight to use amazon prime video in Safari).
My hope is that movie and series content owners will wake up the same way as music studios and book publishers. Selling music without DRM didn't hurt the music industry. Selling ebooks only with DRM led to the strong market position of Amazon with the Kindle.
- tremon 10y agoThe only people that are hindered are legitimate costumers. No, also third parties that have nothing to do with the content industry. At work, we have massive 60" touchscreen in all our conference rooms, and we use them daily for presentations/meetings. Those presentations are regularly interrupted by 20 seconds of black screen. The problem? HDCP handshake incompatibility between the newest batch of laptops and the TVs.