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Originally Posted by darknova
This is a semantics argument.
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Semantics or not.............
Stating "DRM prevents you from making a useable backup" is akin to stating "house fire prevents you from making a usable backup"
Think about it.........if you back up all your files to a second hard drive and then a house fire destroys that second hard drive your back up files will be useless.
Did the house fire prevent you from making a usable backup of your files? No.
Here's an experiment for those that think DRM prevents you from making a usable backup.
Take a DRM'd file on computer A and make a backup copy on computer B. Now take that backup copy from computer B and transfer it to your designated reading device. Can you read the file? If yes then it is obvious that the DRM did not prevent you from making a
usable backup.
Now, some things that could prevent your DRM'd backup files from being useful at some point in the future are...
1: Change of reading device
2: Hard disk/motherboard failure
3: DRM provider ceasing business
4:
House fire
See?
Now that that is cleared up here's the easy way to move beyond this seemingly never ending argument about whether or not DRM prevents backups......
Why doesn't the person who originally made the claim simply admit they did not express themselves very well and really meant that, depending on the circumstances, DRM could prevent any backup copies from being useful in the future.
It is obvious to all that this is what was meant anyway!
Cheers,
PKFFW