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Originally Posted by Psykhe
a very efficient DRM can be unnoticable to the buyer.
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Until something goes wrong. Either the DRM management servers breakdown for an hour or two, or the company holding the certs/keys folds or they decide to deprecate the system in favour of new hardware/systems. Things do go wrong, things do get old, things do get deprecated, and when they do the consumer has to reacquire their collections.
I can appreciate media distribution corps loving DRM, when you take away the "piracy" factor, having DRM is a very convenient manner in which to usher people to buy all their old media on new formats - brilliant marketing "Sorry people, we don't support this anymore". These statements are backed up by the fact that media distributors now have rewritten terms-and-conditions to indicate that the end-user is just buying a
licence of the media, not a copy.
The piracy slant is just a red herring. It's the excuse, the great spectre, used to justify driving the consumer into a new holding area where they no longer actually own any media, they merely licence it under retractable terms.
DRM is about consumer control, not prevention of privacy.
Paul.