[gizmo686]

Cryptogtaphically speaking, what is DRM. We want to give an untrusted user access to content, so that they can see it, without giving them access to the content, so they cannot copy it. This is simply impossible in theory. In practice, we can make copying it difficult, possibly resorting to hardware support (so decryption happens in the monitor) and rely on the DMCA to make any attempts to break DRM illegal. Of course non of these solutions actually work in theory; and the farther down the arms race we go, the more annoying it gets to legitimate users.

[throwaway613834]

> Cryptogtaphically speaking,

Honestly, this might be why people aren't on the same wavelength. They're not cryptographically speaking.

[snarfy]

Cryptography allows Alice to share a secret with Bob without Carol listening in.

In DRM, Alice and Carol are the same person.

[throwaway613834]

I'm not sure if that's correct or not, but either way, that's in complete agreement with what I just said: they are not speaking in terms of cryptography.

[Raphmedia]

Even if everyone were to replace their hardware for DRM-friendly monitors, you can bet that in a week the market will be flooded by chinese made hardware dongles that allows you to bypass it.

[mo2k]

I know content creators. There is a large group that hate their content being copied. That's not going to change.

[ctrl-j]

> I know content creators. There is a large group that hate their content being copied.

And yet, most content creators I know recognize that the "old ways" are dying, and community involvement and other value adds are the way of the future.

Look at youtube (pre ad-pocolypse), twitch, and patreon. DRM isn't where the money is at with content-creation. Spotify, apple-music, et. al. don't pay their artists nearly enough. The future of content is in direct distribution - not billionaire funded recording companies.

[rocqua]

Is it content creators or content distributers?

I thought most pushback against easier access to content was from publishers / curators / distributers. They are being made obsolete by digital distribution and are using 'but the poor artists' as an smoke-screen to delay their obsolescence.