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Well it involves a generation loss

• jacquesm 12y ago
  Until recently that was the norm and usually the information survives such copying for several generations before it becomes unusable.
  • vidarh 12y ago
    And furthermore, most content businesses is facing a reality where they are having a hard time getting users to pay more for higher quality versions, yet the higher quality versions exists. If users have to settle for "only" DVD quality rips of content ripped from Bluray, for example, most wouldn't care. That problem is going to make DRM increasingly pointless with pushes for 4K and beyond.