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Re:The dark side of teen texting by theorique on Friday December 14, 2012 @09:59AM (#4921180)
DRM only needs to fail once. Then an image is in the wild and can be endlessly replicated (think Streisand effect / network effect).
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Re:The dark side of teen texting by Shorel on Monday December 17, 2012 @10:00AM (#4932488)
For a movie, or for the pictures of someone famous?

Yes, lots of people will be trying to break that DRM.

For a random no-one in some small country? Out of millions of random no-ones?

It's a lot better than the current no-protection-at-all scheme.

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