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I'm sorry if I was not clear on this part. If you speak about DRM-for-copy-prevention to people in the street, a lot of them consider it as a 'necessary evil'
by jbk 12y ago
I'm sorry if I was not clear on this part.
If you speak about DRM-for-copy-prevention to people in the street, a lot of them consider it as a 'necessary evil' because 'the artists need to live of their work'.
When you know more about DRM, you usually have stronger arguments against, of course.
- shmerl 12y agoYes, and they make two mistakes - that's it's necessary (as you pointed out, DRM doesn't prevent piracy), and that such evil is acceptable (accepting massive surveillance or other overeaching police state kind of methods is similar).
- jbk 12y agoI'm not making any judgment on DRMs, I'm just trying to explain how they work.
- shmerl 12y agoI understand. You are right about the main issue behind it - most people are not thinking this through, otherwise there would be more opposition to DRM.
- edanm 12y agoSomewhat off topic advice - if you're trying to convince people of your views, calling things "evil" rarely works. I'm willing to believe that DRM doesn't further the interest of society, but evil? I don't think you can say that considering the real evil that exists in the world.
- shmerl 12y agoWould you call police state evil? I would. Same thing is about DRM in my view. How would you call something like this for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_rootkit https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_rootkit