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| Thread ID: 121201 | 2011-10-15 23:49:00 | The beginning of the end of DRM? | Agent_24 (57) | PC World Chat |
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| 1237813 | 2011-10-15 23:49:00 | torrentfreak.com A new paper to be published in the upcoming issue of Marketing Science shows that removing DRM from music leads to a decrease in piracy. Or phrased differently, DRM appears to be an incentive for people to pirate music instead of buying it. The researchers from Rice and Duke University used analytical modelling to come to this seemingly common sense conclusion. DRM only hurts legitimate customers. Certainly makes sense to me, after the immense annoyance that was Steam following my purchase of Half-Life 2, I will never again buy anything which uses DRM. |
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| 1237814 | 2011-10-16 00:03:00 | Interesting read :thanks Seems thats already known. :) The late Steve Jobs already knew this a long time ago. “DRMs haven’t worked, and may never work, to halt music piracy,” he said back in 2007. |
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| 1237815 | 2011-10-16 00:16:00 | Maybe now more attention will be paid though? | Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 1237816 | 2011-10-16 01:08:00 | Maybe now more attention will be paid though?I doubt it - this has been said many times in the past, and thus far the only people who listened are the music labels - and even then, only after pressure from Apple. | Erayd (23) | ||
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