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No, this doesn't make sense in the slightest. Fact 1. If I want a movie or song without paying for it, I can get it. I don't need any more facts, this "soluti

No, this doesn't make sense in the slightest. Fact 1. If I want a movie or song without paying for it, I can get it. I don't need any more facts, this "solution" doesn't solve fact 1's problem. It simply breaks the internet. So what part of creating a burden that doesn't solve a problem make sense?

andylei 14y ago
> Fact 1. If I want a movie or song without paying for it, I can get it. this is actually irrelevant. netflix is contractually obligated to distribute all their content through DRM'ed channels. Hollywood knows that DRM isn't going to stop copying, but they would still like to reduce it, and they certainly aren't going to license their content to services that make copying trivial.
recoiledsnake 14y ago
How does it break the internet anymore than Flash and Silverlight do right now?
- darkchasma 14y ago
  I have the option to not use flash, or silverlight. When built into a specification, that option is absent.
  - jiggy2011 14y ago
    Not really, you can always disable that option in the browser or use a browser that doesn't implement that part of the spec.
  - anigbrowl 14y ago
    Nobody's forcing you to use a web browser either. You just like it.
takluyver 14y ago
They don't have to make it impossible to get movies/songs without paying. They just have to make it hard enough that Joe Random-User doesn't make copies for all his friends People talk a lot about the analogue hole. Imagine they've got it locked down all the way to a trusted screen and speakers. Now, to make a copy, Joe would need to set up a good camera and microphone in a quiet room, and let the movie play for two hours. All of which is possible, but he won't put that much effort in. Of course, someone somewhere in the world will bother, and it will end up on file sharing sites. That's why they also go after those sites, and pressure search engines not to list them. Again, they'll never stop it entirely, but they want you to hit dead links and slow downloads, to worry about viruses from dodgy Russian websites, and to imagine that the police are tracking your downloads. Sooner or later, it's just easier to cough up for a legitimate service. They don't need the unbreakable system that we rightly point out is impossible. They just need to make free copies unappealing enough that people will pay a bit for legal content.

andylei 14y ago

> Fact 1. If I want a movie or song without paying for it, I can get it. this is actually irrelevant. netflix is contractually obligated to distribute all their content through DRM'ed channels. Hollywood knows that DRM isn't going to stop copying, but they would still like to reduce it, and they certainly aren't going to license their content to services that make copying trivial.

recoiledsnake 14y ago

How does it break the internet anymore than Flash and Silverlight do right now?

darkchasma 14y ago
I have the option to not use flash, or silverlight. When built into a specification, that option is absent.
- jiggy2011 14y ago
  Not really, you can always disable that option in the browser or use a browser that doesn't implement that part of the spec.
- anigbrowl 14y ago
  Nobody's forcing you to use a web browser either. You just like it.

takluyver 14y ago

They don't have to make it impossible to get movies/songs without paying. They just have to make it hard enough that Joe Random-User doesn't make copies for all his friends People talk a lot about the analogue hole. Imagine they've got it locked down all the way to a trusted screen and speakers. Now, to make a copy, Joe would need to set up a good camera and microphone in a quiet room, and let the movie play for two hours. All of which is possible, but he won't put that much effort in. Of course, someone somewhere in the world will bother, and it will end up on file sharing sites. That's why they also go after those sites, and pressure search engines not to list them. Again, they'll never stop it entirely, but they want you to hit dead links and slow downloads, to worry about viruses from dodgy Russian websites, and to imagine that the police are tracking your downloads. Sooner or later, it's just easier to cough up for a legitimate service. They don't need the unbreakable system that we rightly point out is impossible. They just need to make free copies unappealing enough that people will pay a bit for legal content.