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Originally Posted by stonetools
Maybe the solution is not no DRM , but BETTER DRM. After all, we don't give up on speeding laws, because there is frequently arbitrary and uneven enforcement of those laws or because it represents a restriction after we have spent our hard earned money to buy cars that can go much faster than the speed limit. Why how dare the government insist that we can only go 55 or 30 or 15 mph in certain areas and that those limits arbitrarily change over time! Why, the nerve....
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It's more like selling cars that only work in the city you live in and will stop to work entirely if you decide to move to another town. And of course you are not allowed to sell the car even though you can't use it anymore, so all you can do is trash it and buy a new one.
There are laws against piracy and pirates and pirate sites can be prosecuted. That's what you can compare with speeding laws.
But DRM is not a law, so you can hardly compare it to one. It's a mechanism that criminalizes and annoys paying customers, much like forcing an anti piracy spot down your throat that you can't skip every time you watch the DVD you have paid for. Pirates will never get to see that spot, but you are punished for having paid for the DVD, stupid honest customer that you are.
Things like that make people turn to the darknet.