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Re:Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential by marcosdumay on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @09:16AM (#7057131)
> For people willing to pirate, it, yes.

What good is protection against piracy from people not willing to pirate?

And no, pirated content is far more convenient than DRMed content. DRM can only reduce the conveninence, not increase.

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Re:Requirements for DRM in HTML are confidential by flavor8 on Tuesday January 14, 2014 @09:30AM (#7057209)
> What good is protection against piracy from people not willing to pirate?

It's about business. Protection that works for 99.5% of the population is good enough for the old content industries. Netflix couldn't exist in its current form without DRM -- Netflix does not succeed because of novel technologies, but rather because of successful content licensing.

To be clear I'm not a fan of DRM, especially not when it's baked into the HTML standard.

> And no, pirated content is far more convenient than DRMed content.

I didn't say that - you're arguing against a position I didn't state.

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