The world isn't fair. But the DRM folks are fighting an impossible battle, trying to make abundance scarce: Given an "asset" in digital form, make it so that i

The world isn't fair. But the DRM folks are fighting an impossible battle, trying to make abundance scarce: Given an "asset" in digital form, make it so that it can be (mass-) distributed but cannot be copied. The solution they choose: encrypt the content with one key. The encrypted content is freely distributed (though not without cost, to the distributor), but worthless without the key. So the key is sold to every user that pays, but resides in a black box DRM library to prevent redistribution by the user. At scale, that's like giving all residents of, say, Luxembourg a copy of the same key and saying: you're not allowed to look at it because we're afraid you'll share the key with foreigners. Once you have physical access to a computer, it can only hide its secret through obscurity. And security through obscurity isn't the best.