On 1/21/2011 6:31 AM, scott wrote:
>> Yes, some *companies* do this. And there are laws to prevent it. What
>> I'm saying is that some random dude on the street isn't going to do
>> this. It's far too expensive, for a start.
>
> OK I understand your point.
>
>> No. I mean that it only takes one single person to work out how to
>> defeat DRM (which will happen with probability 1), and your system is
>> broken. You no longer have control over what people do with your data.
>
> But the DRM is not useless in that situation, as not everyone knows how
> to find illegal copies.
>
>> (More to the point, with current DRM systems, it's actually *easier* to
>> use the cracked content than the genuine article. Incentive to pay,
>> much?)
>
> A good example is the adverts before a film on a DVD that you are forced
> to watch. A cracked copy will usually cut out the adverts, and some
> people would say it is doing no harm by doing that themselves for their
> own personal use. But, the fact that the adverts cannot be skipped is
> actually creating income for the publisher, without them they'd need to
> charge more for the DVD in the first place.
>
This is funnier than hell. You do realize that 100% of those 
advertisement are for products *produced* by the same company that you 
bought the DVD from? Who are they losing revenue from if you remove 
them, themselves?

Sure, you "might" see something you want to buy later, but if you own 
everything they are advertising already, or would never buy them in the 
first place... ridiculous!

-- 
void main () {

     if version = "Vista" {
       call slow_by_half();
       call DRM_everything();
     }
     call functional_code();
   }
   else
     call crash_windows();
}

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