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

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.