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Originally Posted by markbot
Think of DRM like a condom. DRM is meant to protect content from piracy. Condoms are meant to protect against stds and pregnancy.
The OP has a title that implies that ditching the protection can actually be more effective than implementing the protection, which is absurd. Hence the fact that you don't get my post sorta proves my point.
Get it?
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Not at all, no. But that is probably because your analogy is flawed from the start.
I don't use a condom with my husband, because after ten years together, neither of us feels we need to (we use another form of birth control). Your condom analogy makes sense only if I out of nowhere suddenly decide that the man who's been mine and only mine for a decade has cheated on me. It would not be good for our marriage if I wasn't willing to give him the benefit of doubt. After all, he's spent over ten years earning that benefit, by earning my trust. And yes, I refuse to believe he'd cheat on me. He's neither stupid or suicidal.
Back to your post, it makes no sense whatsoever. Not only because DRM doesn't work, while condoms do. It makes no sense because condoms are things we use because we have to, DRM is there because others force us to endure it. So to equate DRM to condom use is flat out stupid. It's not even close to relevant.