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Originally Posted by djgreedo
I'm not defending piracy, but categorising all pirates as motivated only by cost is missing a lot of the point.
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Not really. People can be as altruistic as they want, but when your perfectly viable alternative is simply not to get the product at all, stealing it via the darknet is exactly the point.
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Originally Posted by djgreedo
DRM and 'obtrusive to customers' go hand in hand though, and of course DRM doesn't prevent piracy anyway.
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As I described in the cable scenario, the DRM used there is not obtrusive to customers... they are fine with it, in fact, rarely complain about it anymore, because they appreciate the service they're given enough to overlook the security issues.
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Originally Posted by djgreedo
Cable is not a good analogy...
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I never said the two were exactly alike... of course they're not. But the analogy is still a good one. You pay for a service that includes security (you can't share with other households). If you move, you have to close your old account and open a new one (or at least have the account transferred to the new residence). Copyright is still in effect: You can watch shows, you can tape them and watch them later, but you are still forbidden to use those shows for your own profit.
But because you happen to like seeing House in crystal-clear HD, you put up with all of that... which, coincidentally, is exactly the opposite of the e-book consumer, who would look at the above scenario and say "the cable industry is EVIL, and I'm going to steal my TV shows from my neighbor."