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Re:The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations... by shmerl on Thursday May 15, 2014 @03:04PM (#7751480)
It doesn't sound morally good because it's overreaching and preemptive policing (even if we falsely assume that DRM is effective). The fact is, most people don't think this issue through and don't realize how crooked and unethical the whole idea of DRM is.
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Re:The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations... by jbk on Thursday May 15, 2014 @03:06PM (#7751490)
I'm sorry if I was not clear on this part.

If you speak about DRM-for-copy-prevention to people in the street, a lot of them consider it as a 'necessary evil' because 'the artists need to live of their work'.

When you know more about DRM, you usually have stronger arguments against, of course.

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Re:The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations... by shmerl on Thursday May 15, 2014 @03:09PM (#7751511)
Yes, and they make two mistakes - that's it's necessary (as you pointed out, DRM doesn't prevent piracy), and that such evil is acceptable (accepting massive surveillance or other overeaching police state kind of methods is similar).
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Re:The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations... by jbk on Thursday May 15, 2014 @03:47PM (#7751781)
I'm not making any judgment on DRMs, I'm just trying to explain how they work.
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Re:The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations... by shmerl on Thursday May 15, 2014 @03:51PM (#7751796)
I understand. You are right about the main issue behind it - most people are not thinking this through, otherwise there would be more opposition to DRM.
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Re:The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations... by edanm on Thursday May 15, 2014 @04:19PM (#7751977)
Somewhat off topic advice - if you're trying to convince people of your views, calling things "evil" rarely works.

I'm willing to believe that DRM doesn't further the interest of society, but evil? I don't think you can say that considering the real evil that exists in the world.

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Re:The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations... by shmerl on Thursday May 15, 2014 @04:39PM (#7752095)
Would you call police state evil? I would. Same thing is about DRM in my view.

How would you call something like this for example: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_rootkit

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