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Originally Posted by David Marseilles
If you have one type of DRM for an extended period of time, the tools to unlock it become less and less like python scripts and more and more like plug and play DVD ripping GUIs that anyone's grandma can use. The more often the DRM is upgraded and strengthened, the longer the tools to break it (EDIT for clarity: "it" is the scheme, not the encryption) remain in a more esoteric and less accessible quasi command line interface stage of existence, scaring off the mass market user. Yes, the accessibility of the drm removal tech DOES have something to do with the lock.
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Originally Posted by Shaggy
DRM removal does not work by breaking the encryption.
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Apparently I shouldn't have used the verb "break" above, which was a reference to the scheme itself, not particular mechanisms therein. Hopefully the edit above provides clarity.