Just earlier today I was scribbling about wasting money on DRM saying:
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I feel sorry for content owners. Their greed makes them easy prey for people selling patented DRM medicine for the delivery of their content. In the long run it only hurts themselves (the DRM tax) and users. In fact, the only people making money off of DRM are the people who deliver content.
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This evening I ran across: Chrome Bug Makes It Easy to Download Movies From Netflix and Amazon Prime by Michael Nunez.
Nunez points out an exploit in the open source Chrome browser enables users to save movies from Netflix and Amazon Prime.
Even once a patch appears, others can compile the code without the patch, to continue downloading, illegally, movies from Netflix and Amazon Prime.
Even more amusing:
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Widevine is currently used in more than 2 billion devices worldwide and is the same digital rights management technology used in Firefox and Opera browsers. Safari and Internet Explorer, however, use different DRM technology.
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Widevine plus properly configured device = broken DRM.
When Sony and others calculate their ROI from DRM, be sure to subtract 2 billion+ devices that probably won’t honor the no-record DRM setting.