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Originally Posted by Psykhe
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.
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Exactly. If someone wants to steal your car badly enough, they'll show up with a flatbed and a fake repo order. The trick is to make it economically unprofitable to steal most cars. Not leaving your keys in the ignition is a good start.
If it's not economically viable to steal your car, the thieves won't bother with it. The people pushing DRM, on the other hand, are doing it backwards. They're making breaking the DRM more viable than buying the book, and getting a pre-cracked book off the darknet even cheaper than either. They're trying to use laws to go against the economic interest of the public at large -- not to level the playing field between honorable and dishonorable, but to oppose the economic interests of, well, everyone but themselves. This works approximately as well as pushing a rope.
Then you get publishers like Baen, who get it, who are making money hand over fist. They're working with the economy, not trying to swim against it. They know their stuff.