Repeat after me: DRM is not about piracy. Casual sharing is not piracy: http://www.idealog.com/blog/drm-may-not-prevent-piracy-but-it-might-still-protect-sales/ … Hixie empiricism:http://www.zdnet.com/article/google-engineer-drm-has-nothing-to-do-with-piracy/ …
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Why does this slow motion train wreck continue? Is everyone in on the piracy joke and just protecting player contracts now?
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Why do large scale rackets endure (and capture pols/regulators)? Money talks, esp. with too little competition. Incumbents hate competition.
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It's not totally clear to me who, overall, is making the money here...
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Le petit et grand rentiers: DRM vendors for sure. Incumbents from content to browser powers too, by taxing competition and inter-locking in.
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Sure, but why is any of this in the interest of CONTENT creators. It's a mystery to me. Rentiers persuade them of dumb piracy arguments?
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Yes, and to suppress casual sharing. + to control supply of playback devices for price leverage. See https://twitter.com/BrendanEich/status/883730873014603776 … -- no mystery!
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Casual sharing can be suppressed with streaming and very basic mitigations.
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Also, my 3yo 4k receiver wouldn't work with actual 4k content because they changed the encryption AGAIN. Had to buy new gear.
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This is what it means that DRM hurts people trying to pay for things legally and not pirates.
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