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Regardless of how effective DRM is, don't forget it was an absolute requirement that Apple had to agree to implement in order to get the iTunes Store open, that
by Angostura 8y ago
Regardless of how effective DRM is, don't forget it was an absolute requirement that Apple had to agree to implement in order to get the iTunes Store open, that Netflix et al had to follow in order to get up and running with agreement from the studios.
DRM enabled a huge number of online businesses by providing content makers with the minimal assurances that they needed that those channels wouldn't be a simple, easy way for their content to be pirated.
- bscphil 8y agoThe irony, of course, is that both of them (and Amazon as well) are simple, easy ways for content to be pirated. Pirates have broken the DRM of all three sufficiently that the original bitstream from each source can be muxed into a mkv and shared - it doesn't even need to be reencoded.