@XaiaX @wirehead2501 at a guess i'd say it averages out at -2% effective. every time DRM prevents legit playback, a pirate gets his wings.
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Replying to @XaiaX
@XaiaX@wirehead2501 if DRM were 100% effective, what percentage of pirated media purchased in China do you think would convert to legit?1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime
@chaosprime@wirehead2501 more than 0%? But they bootleg literally everything over there. There’s a fake Apple *STORE*.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @XaiaX
@XaiaX@wirehead2501 yeah, i saw. pretty amazing. i'm not sure what it demonstrates other than the basic futility of DRM.1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime
@chaosprime@wirehead2501 that if we tolerate a culture where piracy is casually disregarded we end up with melamine in our milk.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @XaiaX
@XaiaX@chaosprime i think rather than disregard piracy, we should see it as a sign that we're making paying for content too difficult.2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @wirehead2501
@wirehead2501@chaosprime To some extent, but a lot of people are also self-entitled jerks that don’t want to pay for anything, ever.2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @XaiaX
@XaiaX@wirehead2501 sure, and they quickly learn to become utterly unstoppable about doing so. if they're a cost, they're a sunk one.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @chaosprime
@XaiaX@wirehead2501 the people worth worrying about are the ones willing to pay for shit but who have other options.3 replies 0 retweets 0 likes
@XaiaX @wirehead2501 or, i mean, you could build a psychotically totalitarian cybernetic surveillance apparatus to make them not unstoppable
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Replying to @chaosprime
@XaiaX@wirehead2501 which i think we should be done with in *looks at watch* about 20 minutes1 reply 0 retweets 1 like - 1 more reply
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