Re:50% of Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped
by chris11 on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @03:24PM
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And even worse, crackers do it as a hobby. DRM makers just do it as a job, so they have less incentive to make their DRM innovative. Crackers will see a hard to crack DRM, and view it as a challenge and a reason to get excited. When the iphone was cracked, the kid got news coverage worldwide.
Re:50% of Charges Against Pirate Bay Dropped
by nazgulnarsil on Tuesday February 17, 2009 @06:05PM
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it's not just that crackers are more experienced. DRM only needs one person to crack it for a total failure. The first person to crack it distributes it to everyone else without the DRM.
DRM only works on the non tech savvy. And those are the people who are unlikely to steal your stuff anyway.
It's the whole DRM vs crackers in games. All the scene members have been cracking DRM since it came out, all the people making the DRM have been doing it anywhere between 0 and 2 years. It's an unfair battle and companies don't get that they've already lost. The only reason why Apple succeeded so well with its DRM is that no one was used to the technology, Apple came out with a competent DRM to begin with so the crackers didn't get step by step challenges.