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The other 'best way' to reduce piracy would be to sell all electronic works through the same online interface without the need for any other apps or DRM. Other
by OscarCunningham 3y ago
The other 'best way' to reduce piracy would be to sell all electronic works through the same online interface without the need for any other apps or DRM.
Otherwise, the pirated product is actually better than the paid one.
- __MatrixMan__ 3y agoHaving a single online interface means that people will fight to control it (and it's not partition tolerant). Better to go content-addressed and let people move bits around in whatever way suits their use case. Then, separately from delivery, have player plugins which compare hashes of the content to an online database to decide who ought to get paid for the bits I've consumed. It's the player, after all, which knows how my attention was allocated, not the downloader.
- AmericanChopper 3y agoI’m not sure one single interface is the solution, but making a product that people actually want to buy is. At the moment you can subscribe to half a dozen different streaming services, only to end up with some of the content you want to watch. Spotify basically solved music pirating. Today it doesn’t really matter if you subscribe to Spotify, or Apple Music, or Tidal, or YouTube Music… most people can get most of the music they want to listen to from one of them, and the experience is good enough that pirating music would just be needlessly tedious (for most consumers).