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What has sharing personal information on facebook got to do with DRM? What does an informed person have against DRM if it lets him use the content anyway they w
by yalogin 13y ago
What has sharing personal information on facebook got to do with DRM? What does an informed person have against DRM if it lets him use the content anyway they want to consume it (e.g. netflix)? I am just trying to understand what the complaint specifically is.
- shmerl 13y ago> What has sharing personal information on facebook got to do with DRM? It was a comment on "regular" people. I.e. their acceptance of Facebook's disrespect to their privacy often comes from them being clueless. Same thing with acceptance of DRM which you brought above. People don't think. > What does an informed person have against DRM Informed person doesn't trust DRM, and doesn't proliferate it by supporting distributors who push it on people. See the whole discussion above. No point to repeat the explanations.
- Apocryphon 13y agoIsn't Steam, another great success story about a business model that prevents piracy, a distributor that uses DRM?
- shmerl 13y agoSteam doesn't prevent any piracy DRM wise. And its success is not related to its DRM. They were just first and grew big before others entered the scene. I personally don't use Steam, precisely because of their proliferation of DRM. For DRM free gaming there are GOG, Humble Bundle and others. I'd compare Steam to Netflix, yes. Both are widely used, and both cause damage to the industry by DRM proliferation.