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DRM should be inconvenient and expensive. There have always been ways to implement DRM security theater for the comfort of content providers in board rooms. Th
by apostacy 3y ago
DRM should be inconvenient and expensive. There have always been ways to implement DRM security theater for the comfort of content providers in board rooms.
The media ecosystem is not going to be enhanced by making DRM more restrictive. Netflix could completely deactivate all DRM today, and it would change nothing.
Apple completely abandoned their "FairPlay" iTunes music DRM because it became evident that it was not needed.
- HideousKojima 3y agoEvery single Netflix show is available on the pirate bay, but Netflix still insists on using DRM.
- PlutoIsAPlanet 3y agoBecause Hollywood mandates that legal distribution have DRM.
- Mindwipe 3y agoApple in no way abandoned FairPlay. Every file on Apple Music, and iTunes Match is protected with it. And those greatly outnumber transactional sales through the iTunes store, by an order of magnitude. The customer picked the DRMed version, every time.
- tn5421 3y agoBecause everyone else pirated to great effect.