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Originally Posted by MovieBird
Essentially, the requirement that you give the key to the purchaser means that they can discover the key in the future. You can obfuscate it, but eventually someone smart enough, with enough time, will crack it if it's popular.
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Exactly. Pirates don't strip DRM by defeating the cryptography, they strip DRM by figuring out how to use the key that the copyright holder gives them. So coming up with stronger/different DRM schemes is a waste of time. At the end of the day you still have to hand out keys to your customers.
That's why DRM is fundamentally flawed as a digital protection mechanism.