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Re:The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations... by ClumsyPilot on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @07:43AM (#29713219)
"But Netflix has 213 million users. If pirating was really so much easier.."

I am willing to bet there are more than 500 million people pirating, so I don't think this argument carries much weight. Netflix is a very 'rich western country' thing. The rest of the world exists.

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Re:The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations... by kube-system on Tuesday December 28, 2021 @06:42PM (#29719733)
The media industry cares about piracy in as much as they care about making money from their customers. Preventing some dude in the middle of Asia buying a Disney DVD from the street market in a country where Disney+ isn't even offered is not affecting their bottom line.

The rest of the world exists but that doesn't mean they were going to be paying customers anyway.

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