> I totally agree, however I think spending money developing DRM is a
> waste of licence payers money because, as we seem to agree, it will be
> defeated and thus ultimately pointless.
There's levels of "security" that DRM (and similar) provides, and as
long as that level is deemed appropiate enough, then I suspect DRM will
continue.
An interesting parallel that always springs to my mind on this one is
region encoding on DVDs. It's possible to make almost any DVD player
multi-region - often for consumer units, by merely entering a simple
series of key presses.
The first question you could ask is - why do they bother? The more
interesting question however is - how many people actually bother?
I didn't until just before Christmas when I finally bought a region 1
DVD. Most people I know haven't.
If everyone - and I mean everyone - made their DVD player multi-region,
it would be far harder to justify making region-encoded DVDs. The level
of people doing it though, isn't enough. The powers that be are
therefore happy with the limits.
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