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Re:US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for ... by TeMPOraL on Monday May 27, 2013 @06:06AM (#5774094)
I think OP was talking about average-Joe's understanding of safety. The "if I buy original version, it won't have viruses on it that break my computer". This is true so far, DRMs or not, and people trust legal media. But the moment this trust gets broken, there will be little reason to go to shop instead of Pirate Bay.
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Re:US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for ... by rst on Monday May 27, 2013 @10:22AM (#5774721)
Actually, there's been at least one instance of legally purchased media installing spyware, the Sony rootkit scandal that's already come up in this discussion:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootki...

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Re:US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for ... by marcosdumay on Monday May 27, 2013 @05:37PM (#5776726)
Yeah, and there are lots and lots of instances of illegaly gotten media installing spyware. You don't need a perfect track record to be the safest option.
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Re:US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for ... by shmerl on Monday May 27, 2013 @06:02PM (#5776828)
The difference is, that it's a common knowledge not to trust pirated materials. But it's not a common knowledge not to trust DRMed ones.
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Re:US entertainment industry to Congress: make it legal for ... by shmerl on Monday May 27, 2013 @12:58PM (#5775361)
My point was that such trust is misplaced and baseless. Since the distributors of the original DRMed media don't trust the average person (thus the DRM), there is no reason to trust them in return (and even are reasons not to trust). Though most people just don't realize it.
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