Originally Posted by 6South

A high post count really doesn't impress me or tell me what a great person / professional someone is. It tells me they spend a shitload of time on a forum, basically.

I'll try to summarize the entire problem w/ the current approach to content protection / anti piracy w/ a simple analogy. It's not perfect but that's why it's called an analogy instead of an example...

The current approach by content producers / owners to fighting piracy is the equivalent of a bank that stores all its money in the parking lot.

Then, when people come by and steal it they say the solution is to try and make stealing "more illegal".

While it's working out great for certain business models on both sides of the issue and helping people who want to further a "police state" / "1984" society in the long term it's doomed to fail.