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Originally Posted by Shaggy
Yes, it was a poor analogy. Wasn't mine.
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Nice try. The point is that the flaw in the analogy you "see" is not there. Because you compare the wrong things.
Stealing a bike is not dependant on the lock key/picking the lock.
Stealing an ebook is not depending on the decription key.
So oyu arguing about lock picking / decription key differences = utterly meaningless.
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"Bad pirate person" circumvents the DRM and then puts the non-protected content up on a filesharing site. It happens all the time. Most people with pirated material don't circumvent the DRM themselves.
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Do say? Really?
To repeat what I said:
"but a theoretical ability to give it to everyone does not make it something which actually happens."
It is quite possible to get circumvent the DRM of a movie and give it in theory to everyone on the planet for free.
Does it happen? Nope.
To repeat: DRM can be broken != DRM is useless.
It is (just like a bike lock) a way to *reduce* the likelyhood of loosing money (money as is loosing the bike you paid for or loosing money from sales you did not made).
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But in a physical world, you can't just bypass the lock once and then share unlimited number of copies of the product with everyone. That's what makes DRM on digital products silly.
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See above. The "share to everyone" is something which just does not happen in reality.
You can only steal a single bike once while a stolen ebook can be destributed multiple times, that is true. But that does not make "DRM on digital products silly".
To the contrary actually. Since the effect of breaking the protection can have a bigger effect on digital products than countering anti-theft mechanisms on physical products the theft protecting of digital ones is far more important too.