On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 01:28 +0100, Christopher Woods wrote: > Nah, because the technology-friendly minority of the world's population will > figure out both how to crack the DRM, and how to produce one-click tools > which strip the DRM from crap-ridden files they've downloaded. > > The world rejoices!
Except they don't, because although the _criminals_ get an easy ride, the honest hackers who'd like to work on media centres and other tools and programs to deal with this content are scared away by the fact that we had to crack the DRM to get at it. -- dwmw2 - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
