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They won the long game. Everything is rented and DRM now. Very little of what most people buy digitally is truly owned.
by blanched 5mo ago
They won the long game. Everything is rented and DRM now. Very little of what most people buy digitally is truly owned.
- duzer65657 5mo agothey didn't win by attacking piracy head-on though, they made capitulation easy & nice enough for us to happily go along.
- befictious 5mo agoall's fair in love and war
- rob74 5mo agoThey did a bit of everything: attacking head-on, lobbying, providing alternatives. And eventually, it worked.
- secretsatan 5mo agoThink people are getting annoyed again at having to pay even more than we did for cable to get all the streaming packages.
- rcxdude 5mo agoAnd now that they're trying to push up the margins and the streaming ecosystem is fragmenting making everything into a series of bundles again, piracy is on the rise again.
- digitaltrees 5mo agoThey didn’t win because of DRM. They won because of the regulations that grant a monopoly for a specific term in the form of a copyright. Society has recognized that incentivizing creative acts requires a temporary grant of monopoly to ensure the necessary scarcity to make money and recover the costs of creation. The real problem is Disney keeps expanding that time period so things never enter the public domain
- hurril 5mo agoThis is again conflating at least two things and this is so prevalent in this context. Let us not conflate how annoying DRM:s are to us users that buy the things, with pirates thinking they somehow have a right to use any software without paying fairly for it. I would even go as far as to say that you pirates are the reason I have to have a DRM in the shit I bought and paid for.
- transcriptase 5mo agoPiracy is as easy now as it was pre-DRM. DRM is the digital equivalent to security screws on electronics, in that they’re a mechanism for lawyers to argue their client made an attempt despite being easily bypassed with a trivial amount of effort.
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- digitaltrees 5mo agoExactly this. The real power is in the regulatory grant of a monopoly that comes with rights like the ability to sue for damages, issue take down notices etc. the DRM does allow restrictions on distribution because many people can’t be bothered to remove them, but more importantly the act of removing them is evidence of the intent to knowingly violate the copyright which might be harder to prove otherwise
- the_af 5mo ago> I would even go as far as to say that you pirates are the reason I have to have a DRM I think this is largely an incorrect take. DRM is anti consumer, not anti piracy. In fact, it has done very little to deter actual piracy (and remember it only takes ONE person to break the DRM), while affecting some casual pirates and all legitimate users. In the process, they got rid of reselling stuff you own. It's anticonsumer, not antipiracy, never forget that. It means something like this would have happened regardless of pirates.
- jpfromlondon 5mo agodid they? Is piracy now impossible?
- ChoGGi 5mo agoNot according to /r/CrackWatch They've got some sort of hypervisor bypass for basically all Denuvo games.
- mavhc 5mo agoExcept the only way to watch some shows is now piracy, they've been erased from streaming and never available on disc
- Manuel_D 5mo agoNo? DRM gets cracked and the pirate sites still have loads of the latest shows, games, etc.