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Originally Posted by CWatkinsNash
I'm interested in hearing the part of your plan that specifies what content providers (or someone, anyway) will be required to do to educate people like Mary about piracy and how to keep their purchases from being stolen. Surely that is in there somewhere, yes? Because otherwise you're holding people responsible for not knowing things they weren't given the opportunity to know.
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Good point. (Except that I haven't any "plan", of course: only the curiosity to explore alternatives to the current, malfunctioning and unfair, DRM systems).
As the digital part of people's lives becomes more and more important, we need to get educated about how to manage it without harming ourselves and other people. Maybe part of this could be taught in schools, but mostly education in civil behaviour comes from one's own family (and society in general).
In particular, we have to learn that our (and other people's) data are "valuables", and that we have to treat them as such. Just as I don't leave the door of my home open, I don't give to people I don't fully trust read permissions on data that are important to me or to others. It's easy and quick to do.
If I give my PC to some technician or acquaintance to be fixed, I can protect my media library with a password, or temporarily move it elsewhere, so that there will be nothing to "steal". Would you give a piece of your furniture to a repairman without removing from it the keys and documents you keep in the drawer?
You are right: it's a problem of education. But it's general, not related to DRM or media or piracy.