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Re:Lawrence Lessig Interviews Edward Snowden [video] by bobbles on Sunday October 26, 2014 @08:43PM (#8513199)
Yeah the most restrictive form of DRM in the world means nothing if I can just record a video of it / transcribe it
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Re:Lawrence Lessig Interviews Edward Snowden [video] by Tloewald on Monday October 27, 2014 @12:57AM (#8513924)
Well it involves a generation loss
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Re:Lawrence Lessig Interviews Edward Snowden [video] by jacquesm on Monday October 27, 2014 @04:43AM (#8514461)
Until recently that was the norm and usually the information survives such copying for several generations before it becomes unusable.
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Re:Lawrence Lessig Interviews Edward Snowden [video] by vidarh on Monday October 27, 2014 @08:06AM (#8514998)
And furthermore, most content businesses is facing a reality where they are having a hard time getting users to pay more for higher quality versions, yet the higher quality versions exists. If users have to settle for "only" DVD quality rips of content ripped from Bluray, for example, most wouldn't care.

That problem is going to make DRM increasingly pointless with pushes for 4K and beyond.

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