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Re:Amazon temporarily gags Spore critics, deletes and restor... by river_styx on Friday September 12, 2008 @11:04PM (#302901)
Only one person has to hack the key. Then he/she can distribute either the key or the decrypted content to everyone else. This is exactly why DRM will never work.
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Re:Amazon temporarily gags Spore critics, deletes and restor... by DenisM on Friday September 12, 2008 @11:25PM (#302910)
Have you noticed that XBox 360 is not cracked (short of one batch that had leaky DVD drives)?

It's not a problem to create a real pain in the ass for the pirates. The problem is to avoid creating real pain in the ass for normal users and your own developers at the same time.

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