Mods, please don't delete.
This is not about justifying piracy or enabling it!
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Originally Posted by jlemonde
The current problem is that I don't see how we can prevent piracy if it is easy for everyone to pirate electronic contents.
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You can't. Industrial pirates are NOT AT ALL prevented by DRM:
1) Video (HDCP, BluRay, 4K etc). Ultimate is simply point HD camera or 4K camera at a $500 HD TV in a dark room. Most early piracy is done at studio or projection booth in cinema. For FTA TV, just a USB stick or a PC with sat card instead of DRM encumbered HDD on Android TV, Humax or Sky box.
2) Audio streaming etc. Any Virtual patch cable for chaining sound processing, or the headphone connection.
3) Books. Often the ARC is pirated. Industrial pirates buy paper book, cut spine off, scan on Autosheet feeder and distribute PDF. Some do OCR and a little Proof Reading. Staggeringly Google for their book store encourages PDF upload rather than MS Doc or ePub! But then Google makes lots of money from piracy on their YouTube.
There is NO DRM that prevents commercial piracy. It and the USA valid only DMCA only help big corps to sell multiple formats for multiple devices to same user and inconvenience the user. Why should EVERY viewer have to watch an skippable anti-piracy lecture?
I totally support Copyright and Patents and Registered Designs (USA Design Patents). I totally oppose DRM, DMCA etc as they are fake anti-piracy to exploit consumers and take away fair rights and stop distribution by ordinary people when Copyright expires. I also oppose the repeated extensions (Disney spends a fortune on lobbying) of Copyright after Author's death and Publishing companies getting FULL lifetime rights from writers. Copyright should revert to author after 5 or 10 years, or after 2 years out of print.
DRM isn't the solution to Pirates. That's like insisting everyone wears a tracker and every highway is tolled requiring an ID card. DRM can only ever add cost & inconvenience and take away rights under international treaties from people. It can never stop pirates. They need to go after UPLOADERs, moles in their own companies, commercial companies, not users and consumers.