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> The really insane part is that the DRM is pointless anyway DRM may be pointless if you think its main goal is a way to prevent people from watching content t

> The really insane part is that the DRM is pointless anyway DRM may be pointless if you think its main goal is a way to prevent people from watching content they did not directly pay for. But that is missing the point. It does not matter that you, an individual, can break it. It's a divide and conquer strategy: we as a community have to follow the rules and that's what matters. DRM is about and has been extremely successful at giving content owners leverage over playback devices (you effectively cannot ship a playback device at any real scale without following the rules the content owners set) and transitively to players down the content pipe. That is why it is evil. It's the most clear manifestation of an unjust instrument of power over the user, to put it in Stallman words.

noir_lord 9y ago
> (you effectively cannot ship a playback device at any real scale without following the rules the content owners set) Except a desktop PC/laptop - hence https://youtu.be/HUEvRyemKSg https://youtu.be/HUEvRyemKSg
- Crespyl 9y ago
  This is a really important talk, here's the Doctorow article based on it, if anyone wants to read instead of watch: https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html It's already happening too, note the way Netflix refuses to send higher quality streams to the PC, except through IE/Edge or the native app (which exhibits strange, tell-tale behaviors on multi-monitor setups).