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I actually see the vested interests slowly winning, for better or worse. Web services & cloud gaming are as close as you get to the end-game for piracy. Remotel

I actually see the vested interests slowly winning, for better or worse. Web services & cloud gaming are as close as you get to the end-game for piracy. Remotely delivering apps and games like that effectively hides your code and fundamentally closes the analog hole. Even in the video space, the analog hole is slowly being patched with hardware attested DRM and HDCP, so pervasive now that they're baked into web standards. Dolby Vision has yet to be cracked IIRC, which means pirated movies/TV can be worse than the legitimate one. There'll probably always be insider leaks though (ie. someone with inside access to a master copy leaks it).

pdimitar 6y ago
>I actually see the vested interests slowly winning, for better or worse. That's why I said they lose eventually and only in retrospect. In the meantime (decades or centuries) they dominate indeed. But entropy is always at work. The last 3 years we've seen a torrent of "X site has been breached" and I have no doubt that 80% of all breaches never make it to the news. Which means the vested interests' techniques (SaaS / hosted services like games) aren't fault-proof either. The pendulum is still swinging. As for stuff like HDCP and Dolby Vision, yeah, those are worrisome. :|