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Originally Posted by JSWolf
All DRM does is hurt honest people. Those not honest will usually find a way to break the DRM or find it out on the net already broken. What happens though is an honest person pays for something with DRM, the DRM gets in the way so this person goes to find it cracked on the net and find other stuff for free along the way and ends up downloading that too and not paying for it. So here is a case of DRM causing a loss in revenue where it would not have had the DRM not been there.
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I agree. In many cases we're running into situations where things are completely turned on their head. Instead of spending money on something meaning you get a better copy, one that just works, now it means a more limited copy that's often lower quality and may require crap like flashing your firmware to view. DRM's enough of a hassle that if the pirate stuff had DRM nobody would steal anything. It's the honest consumers who're getting rooked.
Funny that.