Comment by blanched
4 hours ago
They won the long game. Everything is rented and DRM now. Very little of what most people buy digitally is truly owned.
4 hours ago
They won the long game. Everything is rented and DRM now. Very little of what most people buy digitally is truly owned.
They didn’t win because of DRM. They won because of the regulations that grant a monopoly for a specific term in the form of a copyright. Society has recognized that incentivizing creative acts requires a temporary grant of monopoly to ensure the necessary scarcity to make money and recover the costs of creation. The real problem is Disney keeps expanding that time period so things never enter the public domain
they didn't win by attacking piracy head-on though, they made capitulation easy & nice enough for us to happily go along.
They did a bit of everything: attacking head-on, lobbying, providing alternatives. And eventually, it worked.
all's fair in love and war