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Originally Posted by afv001
I disagree, usually adding friction is a sure way to make people more determined to get there and work harder to find a workaround.
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Originally Posted by jgaiser
Pirates will pirate. Yeah, you might deter the onsey-twosey downloader, but the serious pirates aren't even going to slow down.
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Agreed.
If someone really really wants to pirate, they will indeed work around any friction thrown in their path.
Those aren't the people these manoeuvers are aimed at.
They are concerned about casual piracy becoming viewed as something everyone does, and therefore not
really wrong. (An obvious analogy would be with speeding).
They are trying to stop Mr & Mrs Doe from checking if the album they want is available for free before checking iTunes/Amazon to see how much it would cost.
A million
onsey-twosey downloaders frighten them far more than a handful of people downloading thousands of albums, because the onesey-twoseys might actually be lost sales.
It is a big red light saying two things:
a) "What you are doing is wrong"
b) "We are trying to stop you".
Those two things alone will be enough to dissuade many otherwise law-abiding people, either because of moral twinges, or of fear of getting caught.