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I wonder how much more the bunghole of the RIAA/MPAA would tighten up with DRM if it wasn't even illegal to copy stuff they publish with reckless regard. You'd

I wonder how much more the bunghole of the RIAA/MPAA would tighten up with DRM if it wasn't even illegal to copy stuff they publish with reckless regard. You'd basically have to outlaw DRM too, or everyone would just make their stuff unusable/uncopyable.

jasonkostempski 10y ago
If DRM became illegal to even attempt, they'd have a brief period of panic followed by a nice jump in profit when they finally realize they've been wasting bunghole loads of dollars applying DRM to stuff for no reason.
problems 10y ago
Hah, are you kidding? Even the most advanced VM based protections are routinely bypassed by crackers. Things which have an analog hole vulnerability are just too easy. The only way something like that would happen is a big shift in hardware towards tamper resistant stuff with hardware crypto. And if all the RE work on that tamper resistant hardware could be done in public things would get... very fun.
- nickpsecurity 10y ago
  At a distance maybe. The mitigations in smartcards or HSM can take expensive teardowns. Especially if on flagship CPU's on advanced nodes. I prefer the DRM'ers stay with software.
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