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Originally Posted by Shaggy
There's an argument for DRM?
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Certainly, and uses for it.
However.
Very few of those uses have anything to do with the end-user, and are related in the majority to business-business interactions.
dmaul1114 - Yea, keep pushing that view. It's that view which is likely to create a very powerful anti-IP lobby in the EU within a very few years. They already have 2 MEP's...
Making everyone a criminal is very much an American tactic, and is rightly going down very poorly in the EU. If a sensible compromise can't be reached*, then IP itself is going to be under attack in ways I don't agree with, but will be effectively unable to speak up against because of the actions of IP's "defenders".
(*Which involves selling people what they want,
not legal action against them. As long as you are pushing the lawsuits, you are going to have a growing darknet community as a direct response to that, regardless of legal availability... you can't make the darknet go away, but you can shrink it!)
It's absolutely ridiculous that the EU countries who most strongly believe in the social contract have the highest unauthorised copying rates, and it's entirely down to a witch-finder mentality on the side of certain companies - treating the customer as the enemy.