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Originally Posted by Happ
I do not believe in unbreakable DRM. Nor does the industry.
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Those who do believe in it only do so because they don't understand it. In the industries case, the primary purpose of DRM is not to prevent piracy. That's why they don't care that there's no such thing as unbreakable DRM. There's a reason it's called "Digital Rights Management" and not "Digital Copy Protection". What they want to do is control your rights, not prevent anyone from copying the content.
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Alas, no one believes in unbreakable physical locks on doors. And still we use them.
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There is a fundamental difference. Physical locks on doors do you no good when you're trying to prevent the home owner from breaking in to their own house. That's what piracy is. Door locks are useless in that scenario.
Rent a house to somebody. Find the biggest/strongest lock you can and put it on the front door. Now give the renter a copy of the key so that they can get into the house when they need to. That lock on the front door is going to do absolutely nothing to stop the renter from selling all of your furniture.
DRM is the lock on that front door and the furniture is your data. Pirates don't copy your data by breaking the lock, they use the key that you gave them and walk right out the front door with it. That's why there can never be such a thing as unbreakable DRM.
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The industry just wants a DRM solution that most people would not bother to break although it is possible to break.
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Most people never have to bother to break it. It only takes one person to break it, and dishonest people will be able to get your content. What DRM does do is allow you to restrict the rights of honest people, which is what the industry is really interested in.
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The funny thing about it was that iTunes started to abolish DRM because those who pirate can break it anyway and most people seems to be willing to pay even if they can get the same for free on the darkweb. For me this is the point that should be pressed: sell it to people, make it easy to pay, and sell it cheap, abolish geographic barriers, and do that for a couple of years to see the result.
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Supposedly iTunes never wanted DRM in the first place, but I agree with you on the rest.