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There are two benefits in DRM: 1. Stopping "casual" piracy, that is, stopping a tech illiterate person (most of the population) from simply copying it to anoth
by SkeuomorphicBee 5y ago
There are two benefits in DRM:
1. Stopping "casual" piracy, that is, stopping a tech illiterate person (most of the population) from simply copying it to another tech illiterate friend (they don't want a repetition of the K7 mixtape era).
2. Create a walled garden were you have a monopoly that you can abuse to extract better deals from other stakeholders.
- activitypea 5y agoWidespread piracy is a function of access to user-friendly pirating services like torrents or warez sites, not the ability to generate a pirated copy. I'd wager that the number of people in the world who bypass Bluray DRM for non-personal use is in the hunderds, maybe thousands.
- Mindwipe 5y ago> Widespread piracy is a function of access to user-friendly pirating services like torrents or warez sites, not the ability to generate a pirated copy. It's both. Easy generation of pirated copies also vastly increases the number of sources and the speed of propagation.