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Originally Posted by BoldlyDubious
Moreover, the level of technical ability needed to strip DRM from an MP3 file or ebook and upload it on a torrent site is pretty low.
For both reasons, I see as pretty unlikely that this kind of people will turn into expert hackers and will turn to doing something clearly criminal such as breaking into other people's PCs and stealing files.
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Right now, it's easy to strip DRM, but your idea is to implement a system where it is difficult to remove identifying information, and thus dissuade people from uploading their own files.
If such a scheme worked, it would change things, and make it more worthwhile to write a virus that grabbed other people's media. Note that viruses aren't necessarily difficult to write. About 10 years ago, I saw a virus writing kit that made creating a virus literally a point-and-click operation.