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    [–] [email protected] 23 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    locked ones don't provide DRM guarantees either. it takes a script kiddie five minutes to break DRM whenever some new scheme comes out.

    [–] [email protected] 6 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    It's probably contractual obligations from shitty media companies.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    quite probably. Ironically it does nothing helpful because pirates are gonna pirate.

    [–] [email protected] 11 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    If anything, it's does the opposite by driving would-be legitimate buyers (well... Subscribers) into piracy.

    You won't provide it to me even if I pay you, because you don't like the system I use? Fine, I'll keep my money and pirate it instead.

    [–] [email protected] 3 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    the Dutch East India Company were the bad guys. Just saying.

    [–] [email protected] 5 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    ...ok?

    TF does that have to do with modern media piracy?

    [–] [email protected] 4 points 11 months ago (1 children)

    If the monopoly is the bad guys… the pirates are the good guys, right?

    [–] [email protected] 9 points 11 months ago

    Ah, I see.

    If purchasing isn't owning, then pirating can't be stealing.