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Re:FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to sup... by npsimons on Thursday May 15, 2014 @10:55AM (#7749762)
but in reality the people who disagree often have just as good an understanding of the basic facts, yet disagree anyway.

Really? I hate to be the elitist asshole, but if people don't understand that making bits uncopyable is not in the realm of reality, then I would argue they don't understand basic facts. See Schneier's commentary on "making water not wet" and copy protection, eg https://www.schneier.com/crypto-gram-0108.html#7

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Re:FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to sup... by streptomycin on Thursday May 15, 2014 @11:09AM (#7749855)
It's impossible to make bits uncopyable, but it's easy to make them less convenient to copy. That's the purpose of DRM.
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Re:FSF condemns partnership between Mozilla and Adobe to sup... by sroerick on Thursday May 15, 2014 @12:15PM (#7750341)
It's not easy to make them less convienient to copy.

It is easy to outlaw it, though.

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