guardian.co.uk— Movie studios believe they can create the perfect copy protection system. But it would be easier to go faster than the speed of light, says Cory Doctorow.
Sep 4, 2007View in Crawl 4
Another superb article by Cory Doctorow. DRM only hurts honest, paying customers. Why would someone want to pay for a version of a product that is inferior to the version they could download for free? Do they really think they can modify human nature to suit their business model?
If we could build a spaceship that would accelerate at only 1G continuous, in just under a year we would be at the speed of light, except that Einstein said that it takes more power as we approach the speed of light. Maybe Muslix64 could hack this for us. I'm ready to meet some Vulcans.
The point of DRM was to make piracy inconvenient and preferably impractical for casual users. While casual users can't crack the DRM themselves, they don't need to. They can simply grab the torrent, saving themselves hours of encoding and the price of a cinema ticket or DVD.
bluetagpizzaSep 5, 2007
Another superb article by Cory Doctorow. DRM only hurts honest, paying customers. Why would someone want to pay for a version of a product that is inferior to the version they could download for free? Do they really think they can modify human nature to suit their business model?
no3dalefanSep 5, 2007
If we could build a spaceship that would accelerate at only 1G continuous, in just under a year we would be at the speed of light, except that Einstein said that it takes more power as we approach the speed of light. Maybe Muslix64 could hack this for us. I'm ready to meet some Vulcans.
entangledphysxSep 5, 2007
you mean to put "better" in quotes, right?
sphonixSep 5, 2007
If it can be decoded by something then the encryption can be broken. Simple.
toastmonsterSep 5, 2007
bring it on, DRM
kronix2Sep 5, 2007
The point of DRM was to make piracy inconvenient and preferably impractical for casual users. While casual users can't crack the DRM themselves, they don't need to. They can simply grab the torrent, saving themselves hours of encoding and the price of a cinema ticket or DVD.