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The Content Scramble System on DVD's isn't anti-competitive, since all players can obtain a license for it, it's just anti-consumer. The example I'd like to se
by Joeri 8y ago
The Content Scramble System on DVD's isn't anti-competitive, since all players can obtain a license for it, it's just anti-consumer.
The example I'd like to see is of a single work that wasn't pirated due to DRM. DRM is hidden behind this wall of lies where ostensibly it's about piracy but in reality it is not. The true purpose is to control legal playback behavior, like how all legitimate hardware DVD players respect the flag that marks ads as unskippable because that's a requirement to obtain a DVD-CSS license, even though that DRM was already cracked in the 90's.
- Dylan16807 8y agoDRM is sometimes useful to delay the pirating of games. It would be nice if they were forced to remove it after 1/3/12 months.
- jacoblambda 8y agoConsidering DRM is often cracked within hours of release I'm not sure if it is really worth the cost of the license.
- jsgo 8y agoIs that the case? I have read where Denuvo has been pretty effective for various games. I believe it eventually ends up getting cracked, but they've said the main goal is to delay it not to eliminate it as they feel the latter is impossible (and probably so, especially without impairing the enjoyment of their paying customers).
- chicob 8y agoWithout trying to be picky, I would say that copying is not consuming. So DRM is not anti-consumer, but anti-freedom. The way words are thrown around theses days is kind of orwellian, and this has gotten into everyday's vocabulary. Part of this issue is philosophic in nature, and the absence of a proper public discussion is conditioning the way we speak in a perverse way. Consuming requires the exhaustion of the good being consumed: food is eaten, and consumed; clothing is worn, and consumed. This does not apply to data, and to culture in general. We consume tickets for the right to watch movies in a theater, or visiting a gallery. But we do not consume the movies or the art exhibition. We could argue whether the limitation of freedom is justified in a given situation, and that is a whole different and interesting discussion, but confusing concepts has led to the generalized (and wrong) conclusion that scarcity pertains to any good we buy, in particular those of cultural nature.
- Joeri 8y agoToday the word consumer is basically a stand-in for citizen, which is really what I meant. There’s a whole podcast episode dedicated to this peculiar change: https://www.ridiculoushistoryshow.com/podcasts/rhs-citizens-vs-consumers.htm https://www.ridiculoushistoryshow.com/podcasts/rhs-citizens-...