Quote:robkelk wrote:Well, to be fair, I've figured that, for years, it's not really been about piracy, that's just the convenient strawman they're using.
Time for the shareholders to ask the associations why they're throwing away so much money on DRM that has been shown to make no financial difference.
It's really about control of how the product is consumed, and if they work things right, making it a lot harder for this upstart called the Internet to take away their ability to gatekeep popular culture and determine who the next successes are. Then there's the idea that you have to buy media again and again for every single device you want to have it on ("Got it on disc? We still want you to shell out for the rights to a digital file that will only run on part of the devices on the market. And that doesn't include your phone, that's a whole different file altogether."), and some of them want you to have to pay a microtransaction for every single listen, based on the number of people who can hear it (after all, we don't really own the content we buy, we just own a license on their terms).
And the "always on" DRM schemes of video games aren't to stop piracy, they're to ensure that you step up to the next game when they think the old game needs to be retired from play, and to ensure you have to buy the game from them brand-new, not used from a private party.
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