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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by drngdds on Monday September 18, 2017 @11:01PM (#15281471)
>DRM makes it hard for 99% of the people

I don't think this is true. You can find illegal streams for many (most? (all?)) TV shows with a quick Google search. It's also pretty common knowledge that TPB and similar torrent sites exist, and you don't have to be in the top 1% of computer users to install a BitTorrent client.

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Re:W3C abandons consensus, standardizes DRM, EFF resigns by always_good on Tuesday September 19, 2017 @05:17PM (#15288896)
>You can find illegal streams for many (most? (all?)) TV shows with a quick Google search

Not in my experience. I couldn't even find a 2016 movie on the top torrent sites last week.

If all you watch is Game of Thrones and other globally popular shows, then yeah, I'm sure it's trivial.

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