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Originally Posted by George
DRM = industries spending millions chasing that last couple of percent of profit from consumers and in the process shooting themselves in the foot by pissing off their consumers who eventually realise that they can get around that problem they had last year by downloading a pirated copy.
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It's surprising that no one has mentioned "DRM" in the context of the awful "Don't copy that floppy" days. Copy protection schemes were used by many companies, like Lotus, to "protect" their IP. So, if you had bought a copy of, for example, WordPerfect (another company that used copy protection on distro floppies), and your install floppy went bad, WordPerfect would charge you full price of the program to replace it.
Of course, these copy protected floppies COULD be copied, if you wanted to buy a Central Point (the people who now make Spyware Doctor) Option Board. Mine paid for itself within 1 month of purchase- lots of people wanted backup copies of the software that they had legally purchased. My point? EVERY DRM scheme can be hacked, and will be hacked. And most, especially the ones that make it difficult for paying consumers to enjoy the content that they bought, will quickly disappear.