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I feel like DRM is basically the prisoner's dilemma at this point where it's in everyone's interest to give it up, but no one wants to be the first person to do

• dredmorbius 7y ago
  If you have a choice between doing the right thing, and the wrong thing, and you choose to do the wrong thing, you've chosen poorly. I'm increasing not a fan of naked individual initiative as the sole response to abuses of power; that itself is and long has been a tool of power, to skirt its own responsibilities. Annie Leonard's essay on the "Crying Indian" anti-littering (that is: pro-disposable packaging) advertising campaign is a key case in point: http://www.pfree.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Moving-from-Individual-Change-to-Societal-Change-Annie-Leonard-2013.pdf http://www.pfree.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Moving-fro... (PDF) But raising awareness and consciousness can help us get to a collective action promoting the common weal, which is the goal here.
• bduerst 7y ago
  That's an interesting perspective, and I would take it a step further to say it's prisoner's dilemma but with millions of prisoners. From the media owners' perspective, there's always going to be users who defect to piracy, so DRM is the resulting Nash equilibrium that maximizes benefit from not catering to pirates while still catering to customers.
• pessimizer 7y ago
  These are not people, they are businesses; and they are not victims, but producers of a product that they can also choose not to produce, or to produce differently.