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6 Sep 2024 23:22:33 EDT (-0400)
  Re: YouTube lameness  
From: Warp
Date: 14 Nov 2008 10:49:03
Message: <491d9def@news.povray.org>
scott <sco### [at] scottcom> wrote:
> I can understand in the past when there was no internet and people passed 
> around videos to copy at home, and some mild DRM would stop most people 
> being able to copy the tape.  But today there are *always* huge numbers of 
> very skilled people willing to put in the time and effort to crack any new 
> DRM system and share their findings online.  Once one person has done that 
> everyone else can get the copy with almost no hassle.

  That's where internet censorship steps into play.

  (Internet censorship is starting to slowly get widespread. It starts
"innocently" by banning child porn and perhaps racism. But you'll see that
soon it will be used to try to stop music piracy as well.)

-- 
                                                          - Warp


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