Louis C.K. "I've never seen a check from a [TV] comedy special"

Re:Louis C.K. "I've never seen a check from a [TV] comedy sp... by scythe on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @02:14PM (#3348765)

>That's hardly a "factual error". I can email an mp3 to my friend and have them play it. I can't do the same with a DRM'd song. Is that not harder? Instead I have to make extra efforts to strip the DRM or find a non-DRM'd version elsewhere. For non-technical users, it might actually be "hard" to pirate DRM'd content.

If by piracy you mean the kind of content sharing that everyone has been participating in since the 1970s, then sure. But if by piracy you mean torrenting a hundred albums, then absolutely not. The only kind of 'piracy' DRM hurts is the kind everyone likes and nobody wants to ban.

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Re:Louis C.K. "I've never seen a check from a [TV] comedy sp... by ColdSnickersBar on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @02:29PM (#3348837)

>nobody wants to ban.

Except for the industries. They absolutely do want to ban this kind. Almost every single person on the internet is non-technical and doesn't even know how to torrent. If DRM prevents them from emailing a friend a copy, then DRM is doing exactly what the inventors want it to. That's the largest market share.

Also, emailing a song or video to a friend is far easier than handing a person a DVD, CD, or even a casette tape used to be. The old kind of sharing was tolerated because it still used to be easier to go buy an album than to get a copy. Today, that's not the case.

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