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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
The idea is to stop casual downloading by people who aren't tech savvy. They know that anyone who knows their way around computers will get around what they do, but they are just a minority so they don't really matter.
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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.