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Sources: SecLists, Geek, Ycombinator News

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RE: DRM should be illegal
By ritualm on 7/30/2012 1:56:03 PM , Rating: 0
Motoman, you realized this is exactly the reason why the Kensington lock port exists in the first place? Those fancy laptop locks never stop anyone from stealing whatever they're locked to, it just makes them get worked over, in the hopes that you never encounter the one percent...

RE: DRM should be illegal
By Motoman on 7/30/2012 1:59:28 PM , Rating: 2
You're missing the point - this isn't like stealing a laptop that's been locked, thereby dissuading the "casual" thief.

There only has to be 1 person in the world who can defeat a given DRM thing and then post a torrent of the software. Then *boom* - everyone in the world who wants the product in a pirated format can have it. There's no valid analogy to locking a physical thing...because the person downloading the pirated copy doesn't have to do *anything* in order to get their pirated copy. Other than click a link, that is.You're missing the point - this isn't like stealing a laptop that's been locked, thereby dissuading the

RE: DRM should be illegal
By ritualm on 7/30/2012 2:17:54 PM , Rating: 3
DRM hugely inconveniences legal uses while doing nothing to hinder illegal activity.

Laptop locks are cumbersome to use, yet they do jack in protecting laptops from being stolen.

Granted, they're not the same things, but the premise is similar - in an attempt to thwart the one percent, they demonize the other 99%.

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