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If you are going to make claims that don't agree with what most people believe, you should try to at least provide reasoning behind your theories, if not proof.

by Fargren 14y ago

If you are going to make claims that don't agree with what most people believe, you should try to at least provide reasoning behind your theories, if not proof. As it is you are just posting speculation as fact. I think you could make a compelling argument for what you are saying, but you just... aren't.

bad_user 14y ago
Some statements are simply obvious and do not need proof. DRM from a technological perspective is broken, simply because it uses encryption in a wrong way ... the user being both the party that receives the message and the third-party from which the message is protected. This means the decryption key is easily obtained by inspecting the device's memory or hardware or by listening to packets sent over the network. This is why to date there is no DRM scheme that wasn't broken somehow, as the technology is fundamentally flawed from a technical perspective. For Kindle, here's a collection of 4,687 mostly pirated books in Mobi format that you can copy straight to your device: http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6748422/Kindle_Library___%284_687_Ebooks_-_Mobi%29 http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6748422/Kindle_Library___%284... ... do you really need more proof than this? Because really, if DRM doesn't protect against piracy, and it doesn't, then what's its purpose, other than lock-in of legitimate customers? And I've worked for BigCo, I know how they think. Lock-in is not something that just happens. Lock-in is a planned process.
- derefr 14y ago
  > Because really, if DRM doesn't protect against piracy, and it doesn't, then what's its purpose, other than lock-in of legitimate customers? To give technology partners something (broken) to sell to publishers so they'll agree, in exchange, to publish their catalogue in a digital format. It's like giving someone a (broken) gun so they'll agree to let you go on a date with their daughter. You know it's broken, and they might even know it's broken--but it's the act of doing a "good-faith effort" to protect the publisher's content that matters, not the consequence of whether it gets cracked or not.

by Fargren 14y ago

bad_user 14y ago

Some statements are simply obvious and do not need proof. DRM from a technological perspective is broken, simply because it uses encryption in a wrong way ... the user being both the party that receives the message and the third-party from which the message is protected. This means the decryption key is easily obtained by inspecting the device's memory or hardware or by listening to packets sent over the network. This is why to date there is no DRM scheme that wasn't broken somehow, as the technology is fundamentally flawed from a technical perspective. For Kindle, here's a collection of 4,687 mostly pirated books in Mobi format that you can copy straight to your device: http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6748422/Kindle_Library___%284_687_Ebooks_-_Mobi%29 http://thepiratebay.se/torrent/6748422/Kindle_Library___%284... ... do you really need more proof than this? Because really, if DRM doesn't protect against piracy, and it doesn't, then what's its purpose, other than lock-in of legitimate customers? And I've worked for BigCo, I know how they think. Lock-in is not something that just happens. Lock-in is a planned process.

derefr 14y ago
> Because really, if DRM doesn't protect against piracy, and it doesn't, then what's its purpose, other than lock-in of legitimate customers? To give technology partners something (broken) to sell to publishers so they'll agree, in exchange, to publish their catalogue in a digital format. It's like giving someone a (broken) gun so they'll agree to let you go on a date with their daughter. You know it's broken, and they might even know it's broken--but it's the act of doing a "good-faith effort" to protect the publisher's content that matters, not the consequence of whether it gets cracked or not.