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Old 12-12-2007, 03:41 PM   #257
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But on DRM, it is often (almost always) broken by pirates. Look at the LIT format fiasco! The point is DRM doesn't seem to even slow down pirates so ALL it affects are legitimate users. Aside from the fear of DRM catastrophe (loss of entire library), that is the point many customers are trying to make. Why are they inconveniencing us if it does nothing to stop piracy?
So it's not so much the notion of protecting the content that's a dismal failure as it is the execution.

Probably we need a totally new approach, since this road seems to be so firmly a dead end.
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