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Originally Posted by Snuffi
No, the perfect solution would be to abolish DRM and none of those problems would even exist.
With computer software the industry has tried for decades now to prevent copying and exert control over what the user does with the software. Even though not even hardware dongles proved to be hacker-safe and both the music industry and the movie industry failed, the publishers have obviously learnt nothing from the past, turned back the clocks and try again to succeed where everybody else failed...
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Naah, I doubt the word
failed is appropriate here.
Think of it:
If the appliance of a protection system, which does indeed prevent
some users to pirate a product, is cheaper than the estimated loss due to the absense of it, it did pay out.
You´re totally right, any system can be cracked. But the more sophisticated it is, the less is the number of people able to actually use it - that little part is likely overseen in DRM-related discussion, although it is possibly the most important point of it.
Think of Apple:
The iTunes store booms. And that is in a time, where everything available there can be aquired through other, illegal means. Similar with movies - the amount of online-movie stores is still growing.