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But piracy is good right? Death to DRM! If someone doesn't want to pay they should be able to get the content for free, then they can decide if you deserve to

by nxc18 9y ago

But piracy is good right? Death to DRM! If someone doesn't want to pay they should be able to get the content for free, then they can decide if you deserve to be paid. --- That content above seems to be very popular sentiment on HN and other techy places. I don't understand that since all you hurt are people like the author of this post. The tech community needs to get its act together and decide to support intellectual property rights because as tech people that's all we have. And don't think this only applies to proprietary software. MIT, GPL, Apache, etc are all licenses and are all capable of just as much abuse as your traditional EULA.

tomc1985 9y ago
Why do you equate anti-DRM with pro-piracy? That is a bit of an insult as one can hold one opinion without the other. However, there are those who make a special effort to pirate the works of people who promote DRM. The idea is that these people have no right to interfere with how one manipulates the bits on their machine. "They think they can control me, so fuck them" Give up your control. Information wants to be free. Stop fighting it. As a previous comment alludes, much of your pirates are people who won't ever convert anyway.
AsyncAwait 9y ago
> But piracy is good right? Death to DRM! > That content above seems to be very popular sentiment on HN and other techy places. I don't understand that since all you hurt are people like the author of this post. You can't begin to understand it, if you don't understand the 'sentiment' you describe in the first place. Nobody is saying that it is OK to steal someone's work and not pay them for it. The argument against DRM is usually that: 1. I shouldn't, as a paying customer, be required to purchase multiple times just to consume on a different platform, this increases piracy. 2. You shouldn't charge prices that your customers can't afford to pay, increases piracy. 3. DRM punishes paying customers while pirates get a better (unrestricted) version anyway, so where's the incentive to not pirate? ...and many more. Notice how none of these endorse piracy as a good thing, merely point out that these factors lead to it.

by nxc18 9y ago

tomc1985 9y ago

Why do you equate anti-DRM with pro-piracy? That is a bit of an insult as one can hold one opinion without the other. However, there are those who make a special effort to pirate the works of people who promote DRM. The idea is that these people have no right to interfere with how one manipulates the bits on their machine. "They think they can control me, so fuck them" Give up your control. Information wants to be free. Stop fighting it. As a previous comment alludes, much of your pirates are people who won't ever convert anyway.

AsyncAwait 9y ago

> But piracy is good right? Death to DRM! > That content above seems to be very popular sentiment on HN and other techy places. I don't understand that since all you hurt are people like the author of this post. You can't begin to understand it, if you don't understand the 'sentiment' you describe in the first place. Nobody is saying that it is OK to steal someone's work and not pay them for it. The argument against DRM is usually that: 1. I shouldn't, as a paying customer, be required to purchase multiple times just to consume on a different platform, this increases piracy. 2. You shouldn't charge prices that your customers can't afford to pay, increases piracy. 3. DRM punishes paying customers while pirates get a better (unrestricted) version anyway, so where's the incentive to not pirate? ...and many more. Notice how none of these endorse piracy as a good thing, merely point out that these factors lead to it.