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Originally Posted by BoldlyDubious
Given that the current type of DRM can easily be removed, the system does not damage illegal uploaders; while it certainly creates absurd difficulties to users behaving correctly.
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Since it can be easily removed, it does NOT create absurd difficulties. It creates an annoyance, and allows the media companies to think they're doing something to prevent piracy.
I don't like it, but I think the current DRM is much preferable to any system that attempts to identify the source of a file, because that system would be too open to mistakes and abuse and violations of privacy. The people who engage in illegal distribution now will find a way around it, and the rest of us might suffer for it. What's to stop a pirate from attaching the name of an innocent person to the file, and thereby creating all sorts of difficulties for that person?