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Originally Posted by David Marseilles
I'm happy to leave this at us disagreeing, I just want to be clear that we do disagree.
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Funny, I thought I was mostly agreeing with you
You're right in that continually changing the scheme itself will prevent widespread distribution of a simple workaround, but it's really just a cat and mouse game. It also arguably causes more problems than it solves. Anyway, that wasn't the main point I was addressing which is why I didn't really comment on it.
I also agree that preventing piracy with DRM is silly, and not the real purpose of DRM. However the Publishers keep claiming that it's their purpose, and many authors keep believing them.
Did you read his blog on biometrics? It seems obvious to me based on reading it that he 1) thinks DRMs purpose is to prevent piracy, 2) thinks DRM is currently defeated by breaking the encryption and 3) thinks that stronger encryption will somehow help. All of those show a fundamental misunderstanding of how DRM removal works. That's what I was responding to.
I think we do mostly agree, but we're talking about different things.