I don't understand why companies keep thinking up these moronic DRM schemes. It does absolutely NOTHING to protect their copyrights. The people who pirate all this stuff always break the copy protection scheme anyway (sometimes before it's officially used). It just makes consumers lives miserable.
They come up with this stuff because enough morons buy into it. So, companies see that no matter what, enough people buy it and subsidize another DRM nonsense. I'm with you though. What companies do is restrict content owners to do whatever they want with their purchased files. Yes, I own the content. I may not have a right to use it commercially or pass it as my own intellectual property. But, I can do whatever else I want with it. Sell, loan, whatever I want with it. The sad thing is that, the more time passes by, the more restrictions we get on our media. Back in the audiotape days, people made copies of their records and other tapes, and shared them with friends. None of the labels made a fuzz about it. Today it's a whole taboo and "you can't do that" nonsense. WTF??? I forgot, it's all about the might dollar, greed, and corrupt politicians. sad indeed.
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I don't understand why companies keep thinking up these moronic DRM schemes. It does absolutely NOTHING to protect their copyrights. The people who pirate all this stuff always break the copy protection scheme anyway (sometimes before it's officially used). It just makes consumers lives miserable.
They come up with this stuff because enough morons buy into it. So, companies see that no matter what, enough people buy it and subsidize another DRM nonsense. I'm with you though. What companies do is restrict content owners to do whatever they want with their purchased files. Yes, I own the content. I may not have a right to use it commercially or pass it as my own intellectual property. But, I can do whatever else I want with it. Sell, loan, whatever I want with it. The sad thing is that, the more time passes by, the more restrictions we get on our media. Back in the audiotape days, people made copies of their records and other tapes, and shared them with friends. None of the labels made a fuzz about it. Today it's a whole taboo and "you can't do that" nonsense. WTF??? I forgot, it's all about the might dollar, greed, and corrupt politicians. sad indeed.