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Originally Posted by Magnetron
Audio/Video is not a dead end. Bootlegged video will always be inferior to the original.
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Actually, the same is true for audio.
When you rip the audio of say a youtube video you're ripping a low-quality copy of it because
youtube audio is AT BEST 192k, which is ass-shit-fuck quality for anyone that knows audio.
In fact, even 320K is ass-shit-fuck quality to anyone that knows audio because you're still discarding information in order to compress audio. Real niggas demand original-source FLAC or WAV
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Originally Posted by Magnetron
As far as Porn is concerned, audio is inconsequential. You limit how the video can be viewed and you have an effective DRM strategy.
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My point, and the point which over ten years of real-world application of it demonstrates is that DRM does not work. Google the history of DRM and Apple iTunes to give you the classic case-study for it.
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Originally Posted by Magnetron
The best Whackamole strategy is to give the consumer no choice but to download an app that allows him to watch your videos on his device. Without the app, the video does not play. The app forces the device to enter into something akin to a DOS mode in which most other functions are disabled and the consumer can't run a video screen recorder.
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So you're expecting people to install a piece of software that will embed itself into their operating system, taking over basic resources in order to protect your product? Mmm why does that
spectacularly bad idea sound so familiar?
And you're still not addressing the issue that consumers expect the content they paid for to work across multiple devices (home computer, tablet, phone, PC, MAC) so is your software-based crippler gonna work on all of them? Oh lordy.
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Originally Posted by Magnetron
Now, you can throw as many monkeywrenches at the idea as you care to, but your only alternative is to play an endless game of Whackamole involving content that can be cloned or copied and converted back into content that can be cloned.
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I'm not pretending to have a solution to an issue that involves a basic paradigm shift in the product/consumer relationship.
I'm simply pointing out that the DRM-crippling solutions you're bringing to the table have already been tested in the real world for over ten years and failed.