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Some of us knew this 30 years ago

Some of us knew this 30 years ago

Posted Jul 26, 2013 11:05 UTC (Fri) by ewan (guest, #5533)
In reply to: Some of us knew this 30 years ago by Cyberax
Parent article: Android 4.3

"Again, DRM for rentals hinders mostly illegal activities - like saving a rented movie permanently."

I think the point is that it doesn't hinder illegal activities. If you're just going to ignore the law, you don't rent from a legal service in the first place - you go straight to the Pirate Bay et al. The only effect of DRM is to get in the way of people who've already made an active choice to try to co-operate with the media owners.


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Some of us knew this 30 years ago

Posted Jul 26, 2013 12:17 UTC (Fri) by Wol (subscriber, #4433) [Link]

And it HEAVILY penalises legitimate users.

Just look at the Sony DRM for example - which would install and activate even if you told it not to! I believe that was responsible for trashing my system many moons ago.

Plus it laid the system wide open to malware ...

Cheers,
Wol


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