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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey
DRM does nothing to stop piracy. Nothing. It doesn't even stop casual copying between friends. People simply download a torrent instead.
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I disagree. I have plenty of friends and family who know nothing about torrents. Some of those know about limewire and programs like that, but are afraid to use them because they don't want viruses. I understand that this is the minority in this day and age, but there are still a decent amount of people out there who don't know how easily accessible pirated content is.
That being said, I still believe DRM is useless. Those people who don't know how to torrent likely aren't going out of their way to copy files and give them to friends.
I'm of the strong opinion that DRM does nothing helpful for any party. If content distributors want to minimize piracy they need to find someway else to do it, or ignore it. There will always be people willing to buy a good product.