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> A) What does DRM realistically accomplish for the media companies? Control publishing rights, platforms, software and hardware that is used for the consumpt

> A) What does DRM realistically accomplish for the media companies? Control publishing rights, platforms, software and hardware that is used for the consumption of said media. The publishers control the DRM, which then needs to be licensed by television makers, software writers, and such things. Then that gives them control over how is it presented, how it is sold, how it is consumed and it forces everybody to agree to their terms. It is a power thing. They want to have power over other businesses. DRM laws help them do that. > How are these DRM schemes actually being defeated? Well I don't follow DRM piracy stuff, but at a high level the people that want to consume the media must be able to decrypt it to enjoy it. So if you buy one of these DRM devices and figure out how they work then you can decrypt anything that is compatible with them. And you only need to decrypt it once since digital media can be copied a infinite amount of times.

AnthonyMouse 2y ago
> It is a power thing. They want to have power over other businesses. DRM laws help them do that. This is the argument for repealing them, which is why you rarely see them making it out loud. Instead they come up with some rubbish about making it marginally more difficult (spoiler: it's still easier to pirate stuff than use legal services and the only thing actually preventing everyone from doing it is that some people want to follow the law). So it's good to knock those fake arguments down when you see them and leave no excuse to keep the bad laws that ought to be repealed. Accepting their actual motivation like it's a legitimate reason to keep those laws is like saying the reason we should keep doing the stuff Snowden revealed is so the intelligence agencies can spy on the elected officials regulating the intelligence agencies.

AnthonyMouse 2y ago

> It is a power thing. They want to have power over other businesses. DRM laws help them do that. This is the argument for repealing them, which is why you rarely see them making it out loud. Instead they come up with some rubbish about making it marginally more difficult (spoiler: it's still easier to pirate stuff than use legal services and the only thing actually preventing everyone from doing it is that some people want to follow the law). So it's good to knock those fake arguments down when you see them and leave no excuse to keep the bad laws that ought to be repealed. Accepting their actual motivation like it's a legitimate reason to keep those laws is like saying the reason we should keep doing the stuff Snowden revealed is so the intelligence agencies can spy on the elected officials regulating the intelligence agencies.