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Re:The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations... by tzs on Thursday May 15, 2014 @06:17PM (#7752589)
> DRM doesn't affect casual or non causal piracy - this was already discussed at length in the past here. Because once DRM is broken, piracy occurs using those DRM-stripped copies. I.e. it takes one pirate to break it in order for others to never deal with it. Therefore it doesn't lower piracy rate

Many who would casually pirate (or who would pirate without even realizing they were pirating) do not know about those DRM-stripped copies.

Re:The purpose of DRM is not to prevent copyright violations... by shmerl on Thursday May 15, 2014 @06:44PM (#7752695)
That depends on what you call "casually pirate". Numbers are important. The massive bulk of piracy occurs with copies stripped of DRM already by those who know how to do it. If some users of a DRMed service will decide to pirate something and will hit a roadblock of DRM not letting them to copy it, they'll quickly find other sources which provide the same thing without DRM. So DRM doesn't prevent them from anything - it actually encourages them to look for pirate sources essentially completely defeating the whole purpose of itself.