Re:How four Microsoft engineers proved that the “darknet” wo...
by chc on Friday November 30, 2012 @04:33PM
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> And here I thought DRM was trying to make difficult the non-permitted sharing of the results of someone's hard work, for example music an artist created, or books an author wrote, or the years of work a team of actors, cinematographers, move score writers, directors, producers, makeup artists, animators, janitors and all other people that go into making a movie.
I am willing to believe that's what it originally meant to do, but it has proven wholly ineffective at that goal. If you want a pirated work, you don't interact with a DRM-encumbered disk at all — you just grab it off the Net. The effect of DRM on movie piracy seems to be insanely close to zero.
However, it is much more effective at doing things like forcing honest people to buy multiple copies of a movie to watch in their living room (where they have a Blu-Ray player), in their bedroom (where they have an Apple TV) and in their car (where they have a DVD player).
I am willing to believe that's what it originally meant to do, but it has proven wholly ineffective at that goal. If you want a pirated work, you don't interact with a DRM-encumbered disk at all — you just grab it off the Net. The effect of DRM on movie piracy seems to be insanely close to zero.
However, it is much more effective at doing things like forcing honest people to buy multiple copies of a movie to watch in their living room (where they have a Blu-Ray player), in their bedroom (where they have an Apple TV) and in their car (where they have a DVD player).