Copy Protection by using Technology: Obsolete before Written

      Trying to solve a SOCIAL problem with TECHNOLOGY never works.

 

     Content companies only think in the short term - like stockholders who think of only the next quarterly earnings - worry about stopping copyright infringement right now and don't care about any long term impacts . None the of DRM methods they  have  implemented will be still around after 100 years as mainstream - what happens to all this content that depends on hardware / software which no longer exists? Are they going to give people current copy replacements? 

 

      I think not.

 

      They should take the shareware approach - give people free 30 second clips of the music or 5 minutes of movie for free and if people really like what they hear or see then those people will buy the full versions of them.

 

      Unfortunately, the real world is that people who do download songs and movies illegally all the time would have never bought it legally even if was there and offered at a reasonable price - these people had no money to purchase it so firms should should not be using this  "lost of income"  as a fact for them. Not an excuse  for stealing , but it is reality.

 

    For content providers to claim this as a loss of income is like saying a stock a person bought for $2 was really worth $50 a share when they sold it at $10 so they should be able to take a $40 loss per share on their taxes.

 

    This "fact" looks good on paper but that logic does not exist in the real world.