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or, on the other hand, we could phrase the question this way : if these "restrictions" are so trivial that they are essentially negligible, why bother with them at all ? they clearly aren't going to stop ANYONE, require no technical knowledge whatsoever to "crack" and don't significantly increase the "cost" of making your own drm-free product in time ; they are in fact completely pointless. aparently apple and amazon have realized that there is no point whatsoever in using this sort of drm, thus their abandon of it. it won't stop the people who *want* to make copies, it will annoy (somewhat) annoy the people who clearly would pay either way.
on the other hand, if the thinking is that such "restrictions" are absolutely vital to avoid the rampant copy and illicit distribution of the media, then isn't it completely delusional to rely on something which is so clearly ineffectual ?
the point is, DRM is completely ineffectual against copyright infringement. the music industry is finally catching on to that.
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