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Originally Posted by amoroso
Academia or research institutions? Sending spacecrafts to the planets also costs money and time, yet it gets done.
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Because it results in scientific knowledge, which is publicy funded. There is no economic interest there (not yet at least).
I am not saying that research which has no economic application will not be done, I am saying that research which has economic applications will be funded by said economy.
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Originally Posted by Shaggy
That analogy is a little flawed, because this isn't a one for one scenario. ... Additionally, with the way DRM works, it is impossible to make the lock unpickable.
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Firstly, people stealing a bike do not pick the lock in the majority of all cases. They break the lock itself with shears. Its actually pretty similar how evading DRM usually works. People do not calculate the decryption key or anything, they just remove the program code which enables the DRM.
Also, just if someone can circumvent a DRM it does not mean everyone can do that suddenly magically. The person who broke a books DRM can distribute the book to other people, but a theoretical ability to give it to everyone does not make it something which actually happens.
And what makes you think it is possible to make a physical lock unpickable? EVERY protection, be it physical or digital can be circumvented. The perfect protection does not exist.