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Why we should allow DRM on open source platforms
- pwg 15y agoDRM on open source platforms is a Non sequitur. DRM functions by placing something in a lock-box, locking the box, then giving you the locked box and the key to the lock. It then uses obscurity and subterfuge to try to make you believe you do not really have the keys to the box (usually by trying to hide the fact that you really do have the key). Open source, by its very nature, is open. So you get to look inside and discover that you really do in fact have the keys to the lock after all. DRM can only function (to a loose definition of "function") in a closed system. Openness is, by its very nature, the anti-DRM.