Re:Browsers' bid for relevance is turning them into time-bombs
by wolfgke on Saturday July 09, 2016 @07:48AM
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> They know that there is no such thing as guaranteed copy protection and that there will always be an analog loophole.
And they surely know that one able person to circumvent the copy protection suffices.
> They just need enough roadblocks in front of casual piracy to prevent devaluation of their content.
Using DRM on the viewers is a devaluation of their content since I know people who would rather "pirate" instead of buy DRMed content even though they do have moral reservations against illegal copying.
Thus I can hardly imagine a better advocacy for priracy (ironically even from the side of the rightholders) than the rightholders insisting on DRM. Thus every "hardcore pirate" can say that say still have the better product and every fencesitter can warrant their piracy by soliloquizing that they really, really would buy the product but there is no product available without DRM.
And they surely know that one able person to circumvent the copy protection suffices.
> They just need enough roadblocks in front of casual piracy to prevent devaluation of their content.
Using DRM on the viewers is a devaluation of their content since I know people who would rather "pirate" instead of buy DRMed content even though they do have moral reservations against illegal copying.
Thus I can hardly imagine a better advocacy for priracy (ironically even from the side of the rightholders) than the rightholders insisting on DRM. Thus every "hardcore pirate" can say that say still have the better product and every fencesitter can warrant their piracy by soliloquizing that they really, really would buy the product but there is no product available without DRM.