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> which, btw, was posted with a disingenuous title...shame on you OP How is it disingenuous? They introduced DRM. Call it "protected content" if you want,but t

> which, btw, was posted with a disingenuous title...shame on you OP How is it disingenuous? They introduced DRM. Call it "protected content" if you want,but that honestly seems more disingenuous than simply calling it "DRM". > This is a boon to content creators as it protects their payed Telegram content from being easily shared into other Telegram Channels. No it doesn't. DRM doesn't work. End of story. Telegram has a public API and a Free Software client. All someone has to do is fork the client and disable screenshot / screen recorder blocking. At best they can block "forwarding" so you can't actually see what user originally sent the message. Once you send someone content on Telegram, you have no technical capability to stop them from doing what they want with it.

afiori 5y ago
story time: in some country poultry farmers are given based on selling prices of their products, except that for this particular case there is no market consult so the farmer is asked "how much would have people payed for your stuff" and he or she guesses some number. obviously everyone cheated that question to get more money; a year they essentially changed the module to add a "are you lying?" question and suddenly this lowered significantly the overestimated prices farmers declared --- this does not apply 1-1 to DRM in telegram (they removed the download option, not just added a warning), but I find it a relevant story to a broad interpretation of "DRM doesn't work"
- Zambyte 5y ago
  "DRM doesn't work" in the sense that it does not, and cannot, stop users from copying media, it only can make it more difficult. Of course being more difficult can dissuade some non zero % of people who otherwise would have committed the terrible act of Unauthorized Copying, so you could say it works in that sense.

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> which, btw, was posted with a disingenuous title...shame on you OP How is it disingenuous? They introduced DRM. Call it "protected content" if you want,but t

by Zambyte 5y ago

afiori 5y ago
story time: in some country poultry farmers are given based on selling prices of their products, except that for this particular case there is no market consult so the farmer is asked "how much would have people payed for your stuff" and he or she guesses some number. obviously everyone cheated that question to get more money; a year they essentially changed the module to add a "are you lying?" question and suddenly this lowered significantly the overestimated prices farmers declared --- this does not apply 1-1 to DRM in telegram (they removed the download option, not just added a warning), but I find it a relevant story to a broad interpretation of "DRM doesn't work"
- Zambyte 5y ago
  "DRM doesn't work" in the sense that it does not, and cannot, stop users from copying media, it only can make it more difficult. Of course being more difficult can dissuade some non zero % of people who otherwise would have committed the terrible act of Unauthorized Copying, so you could say it works in that sense.