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Re:Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential by wernercd on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @08:50AM (#7056981)
Depends... He could live somewhere that he can't get access to legal copies of TV shows he wants to watch (Some TV shows take months, if ever, to show up locally). Or live somewhere like Australia where everything costs prohibitively more than elsewhere.

If I want a TV show - Say House of Cards - and it's not available, or it's available much later than elsewhere, or it's prohibitively more pricey... They want the show and the only reasonable way to get it... then it will "force" people who want it to Piracy.

Re:Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential by k-mcgrady on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @09:16AM (#7057124)
>> "They want the show and the only reasonable way to get it... then it will "force" people who want it to Piracy."

I would very much like a Ferrari California. It's unlikely I will ever be able to afford one - it is prohibitively expensive for me. I am not being forced to steal it. I understand like a rational human being should that if I can't afford something or it isn't available to me and it isn't essential to my survival I have no right to take it. I know that physical theft analogies aren't very good when comparing to piracy but seriously - you are not being forced to do anything. You make a choice to steal it. Whether that's morally right or wrong is your decision to make.

Re:Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential by angersock on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @12:27PM (#7058313)
First, the show is being given away for free elsewhere--it is mere accident of geography that the person can't access it.

Second, stealing implies that the person being stolen from can't access it anymore--which is clearly not the case here.

Stealing is the wrong framework to use here.

Re:Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential by talmand on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @11:01AM (#7057697)
No, I think it's more the role of the victim of the theft to decide whether it was morally wrong or not.

Otherwise, yes, this idea of being "forced" to pirate something they want but don't have easy access to seems a rather silly statement.

Re:Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential by jonhendry on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @11:08PM (#7061620)
You seem to have confused "wants" with "needs".