torrentfreak.com — In the past we’ve given plenty of examples of how DRM hurts paying customers instead of the people it is meant for. Still, many software companies prefer to see their customers as potential ‘thieves’ but what they don’t realize, however, is that they are actually breeding pirates instead of stopping them.
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maro2bbMar 1, 2009
Yes, I've finded this information in the internet not long ago..
maro2bbMar 1, 2009
It's a cruel cruel world.
edwinjoseMar 3, 2009
If you have 5 loaves of bread, you can't feed 5000. Economists call this phenomena, scarcity. Scarcity is the reason why private property rights are to be implemented. Countries that did not implement private property rights (USSR) for goods with scarcity failed economically.However Software & Digital Media is a different type of commodity. If you have 5 CDs of porn, 5000 people can jerk off to it. Therefore, there is no real scarcity for Software & Digital Media, and therefore private property rights are bad for software. Software manufacturers try to get around this problem which is inherently present in commodity, by using a totalitarian technique known as DRM. But however hard they try they will fail as long as they try to create artificial scarcity.What they need to realize is that software-as-a-product paradigm is flawed. They need to move into software-as-a-service. That is how Google, Digg works. Nobody pirates Google, Digg and they get every penny they own out of it. FOSS is the future. But the dinosaurs (like MS) won't go away without a fight.