DRM Non-Aggression on the Table at W3C

Re:DRM Non-Aggression on the Table at W3C by stegosaurus on Thursday March 17, 2016 @01:04AM (#11302684)

As a sort of external observer who doesn't really 'do' big media, I'm left wondering why content providers even bother with DRM at all.

Any insiders about to provide some sort of perspective?

All of the content is all over torrent sites. The general public are 'non-savvy', or unwilling to take the risk, and seem to continue paying to netflix'n'chill.

So I don't really understand why this is even a thing. It feels like anyone savvy enough to save a HTML5 video and copy it to a USB drive would be savvy enough to open a torrent site. What gives?

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Re:DRM Non-Aggression on the Table at W3C by Flimm on Thursday March 17, 2016 @05:08AM (#11303293)

DRM isn't effective at stopping the data from getting out into torrents, but it is effective at other things, one of which is mentioned by the article: it makes researching copying and bypassing copy restrictions illegal. There are few other I explained in my answer here: http://security.stackexchange.com/a/25175/15712

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Re:DRM Non-Aggression on the Table at W3C by JeremyBanks on Thursday March 17, 2016 @02:20AM (#11302847)

Ethics.

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