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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
In time, I believe a "practically bulletproof" DRM system would be possible and effective (think biometrics), but we're a long ways from that.
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Biometric DRM has been absolutely and totally dead on arrival in the market because customers are not interested, in any way shape or form. It arrived on some laptops in the 06-07 period, and promptly vanished again because of near-zero usage.
There are uses for DRM. Very few involve consumers. (There are plenty of back-end business uses which are undeniably useful, but they are not going to find any consumer market acceptance)
Your assumption that customers are criminals: "Valuable products need some level of security" dosn't fly in the market. This has been proven repeatedly. Even fairly non-intrusive DRM slashes your customer base each and every time it's encountered or reported on.
Incidentally, I lived in an certain area of Oxford for 2 1/2 years. We never locked the front door. There was
no need.