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Originally Posted by ApK
And 'real' pirates would do (and have already done) just that, but it would suck for those of us who just want to backup our stuff or format shift.
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Indeed. DRM is a negligible inconvenience for free-loaders, and a very real inconvenience to the paying masses.
That's no accident. The real money to be creamed by publishers comes from the willful paying customers, who will have to buy multiple copies in the event of device/media loss, or device migration.
Publishers hope consumers will naively
think DRM is a tool against free-loading. The fools who pay for DRM'd content pay for their ignorance. In principal we could say "so what? Let them." The problem is-- smart consumers will lose their non-DRM options because they are vastly outnumbered by naive consumers.
So dumb consumers who buy DRM media will ruin the market for wise consumers.