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Originally Posted by Psykhe
Firstly, people stealing a bike do not pick the lock in the majority of all cases.
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Yes, it was a poor analogy. Wasn't mine.
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Also, just if someone can circumvent a DRM it does not mean everyone can do that suddenly magically. The person who broke a books DRM can distribute the book to other people, but a theoretical ability to give it to everyone does not make it something which actually happens.
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"Bad pirate person" circumvents the DRM and then puts the non-protected content up on a filesharing site. It happens all the time. Most people with pirated material don't circumvent the DRM themselves.
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And what makes you think it is possible to make a physical lock unpickable? EVERY protection, be it physical or digital can be circumvented. The perfect protection does not exist.
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But in a physical world, you can't just bypass the lock once and then share unlimited number of copies of the product with everyone. That's what makes DRM on digital products silly.