Re:Browsers' bid for relevance is turning them into time-bombs
by krapp on Saturday July 09, 2016 @10:05AM
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>without EME how would movie studios agree to letting you stream their movies on Netflix?
They'll agree to it because they need the web to survive. Services like Netflix are the future of media distribution - physical media like DVDs and CDs are going extinct, and movie theaters are dying off. Mass media needs the web, but the web doesn't need mass media.
But is DRM really containing piracy? In most cases, no. What stops people from pirating content en masse is the existence of convenient, legal streaming services and the general disposition of most people to want to avoid breaking the law. People will tend to prefer legal services if they're convenient and inexpensive, even though piracy is free.
So, the pirates are still going to pirate, and DRM of any flavor likely isn't going to stop them. Copyright owners are going to have to put up with it because every distribution model other than streaming over the web will probably lose them even more money than piracy will in the long run.
They'll agree to it because they need the web to survive. Services like Netflix are the future of media distribution - physical media like DVDs and CDs are going extinct, and movie theaters are dying off. Mass media needs the web, but the web doesn't need mass media.
But is DRM really containing piracy? In most cases, no. What stops people from pirating content en masse is the existence of convenient, legal streaming services and the general disposition of most people to want to avoid breaking the law. People will tend to prefer legal services if they're convenient and inexpensive, even though piracy is free.
So, the pirates are still going to pirate, and DRM of any flavor likely isn't going to stop them. Copyright owners are going to have to put up with it because every distribution model other than streaming over the web will probably lose them even more money than piracy will in the long run.