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No, that is just an iteration of a cat and mouse game. It doesn't matter if the technically-weak position can be overcome when it is used by parties with exponentially more money and legal power.

Fighting this fight on technical grounds alone is a surefire way to accelerate the inevitability of locked down computing platforms that restrict what the owner is capable of.



Unless it's easier to break DRM than it is to build a new implementation... Then we're just causing the companies that invest in DRM to lose more money than the companies that respect freedom.

I can't say from experience how difficult it is to break and implement the DRM used on the web, but if it's anything like the DRM used in videogames, it should be doable in a couple weeks (with enough motivation).


The end game is that DRM companies aggressively lobby government to pass laws making it illegal to circumvent a digital lock. Then if you are found to have bypassed their trivial code they throw the book at you.

No technical solution required.




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