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Originally Posted by rogue_librarian
Not so, I am afraid. Oh, you can perhaps make it more difficult for the average consumer to share his copy with a few friends, let them have a copy, as it were. But "casual downloading"? That's totally unaffected by DRM, because that's where the tech savvy people come in: they remove the DRM and upload. Downloading takes practically zero skills.
All that DRM does, really, is make it harder for the people who actually spent the money on a legitimate copy meaning that, ironically, the downloaded copy is technically superior.
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Fair point. It's actually actions designed to cut down on internet piracy that I was referring to, not sure why I applied it to DRM except that internet piracy is one of the justifications for imposing it on legitimate customers.