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Originally Posted by Shaggy
They usually are, but nobody bothers to break the encryption when they defeat the DRM.
It's like renting your house. Putting a bigger/stronger lock on the front door is useless if you're trying to stop the renter from giving away your furniture.
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Tortured analogies for 500 Alex.
Describing a book
owner like an apartment
renter makes it hard to give an accurate description of what DRM is intended to do. By way of an attempt, DRM is not about guarding your furniture from theft by your renters or anyone else, it's about guarding your "renters" from other landlords and/or double/triple charging them. It's like locking the renters inside, and so yeah, the lock tech matters. The less friendly the drm-removal tech is to the mass market (the more often they grow the lock, the less often the tech gets friendly), the higher they can fly the mission accomplished banner.
I think SLJ is on exactly the same track DRM peddlers would be on. They're not targeting you, they're targeting consumers with less skill or more reticence to skirt the DMCA, so the specifics of drm removal tech become irrelevant.