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Originally Posted by DamianJ
You're entitled to your opinion, of course, but when netflix and iTunes came out, there was an explosion of legal downloading. Go figure.
But when iTunes came out, there was unprecedented growth in legal downloading.
You do the math.
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This is very simple. The easier it gets to download, the more people do it. It has nothing to do with measures people have put on their content to protect it. It has everything to do with ease of use. It's that simple. iTunes wrote the book on ease of use.
I would bet that most people would not steal anything online if their name was publicly attached to everything they downloaded. If a public record was kept with this data, the people with a brain would not be stealing. This is why they don't steal from an offline store.
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Originally Posted by DamianJ
Why on earth do you think everyone abandoned DRM then?
Why do many review sites have users complaining about download limits?
Why would you want to make a legal experience considerably WORSE than a legal one?
DRM and dlkownload limits did nothing whatsoever to discourage piracy and file sharing. Unarguable fact. They just make the UX worse for the legitimate customers.
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DRM was abandoned because they did it wrong. Period. Nothing else to say about it. Now everyone is too afraid to try something new, so they don't and say it can't be done.
Review site users complain about everything, as do review sites themselves. That's just how it goes. You will always find people who don't like something.