Quote:
Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
Think of DRM like a speed limit.
In order to keep drivers from killing pedestrians and other drivers, a speed limit is created to regulate traffic. Sure, there will always be people who will break the speed limit, and many will get away with it. But if the majority are stopped from speeding, and as a result, significant lives are saved, the speed limit is considered a successful tool, and endorsed by the public whose lives it preserves.
Example of a BAD speed limit that defeats its purpose: 20MPH on a 8-lane highway with minimal traffic. And if it cannot be enforced, the highway is closed.
Example of a GOOD speed limit that serves its purpose: 20MPH in a school zone, with a few posted officers for enforcement.
DRM, when approached as in the GOOD fashion (unlike today's DRM, which is mostly like the BAD example), is workable. The goal is to mitigate loss to an acceptable level, and to accept that you will never absolutely prevent it.
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Wait.
DRM is not at all a
law, like speed limit is. You can say
copyright is like to have a speed limit (but I have to see a copyright violation to kiil people, yet...).
DRM is a bogus enforcement for it.
Today's DRM is a BAD one because it's like to forbid prudent drivers to buy sports cars and to drive in 8-lane highways. And, in the meantime, to make pay the toll twice for the roads the don't use.
Pirates, OTOH, drive as they like and how fast they like.
If officers can catch them, they go on trial, if not, they just speed away...
Every "Right Management" which gives all the rights to the same side, an nothing to the other one, is wrong. And cannot work, whether analog or digital.
PS: I said they'll make you pay for the new enforcement office, because AFAIK you're an American tax payer. Of course every other US citizen will have his share of the cost...