Breaking Away
Now that the election cycle is all but over I feel I can comfortably break away and talk about something else again.
Now, I’m sure you all know my position on DRM. If you don’t know, let me reiterate: DRM is a waste of money. It does absolutely nothing to prevent piracy and the money spent on developing new types of DRM could be invested in the products themselves or better technologies for product delivery. Imagine if we set up a fund for technology development that took what would normally be spent on developing DRM for PC video games. Imagine the technology we could develop with all those millions of dollars! It would be amazing.
Now why am I talking about DRM? I have to tell you that DRM does not deter piracy. Not in music, not in movies, not in games. How do we know this? The Pirate Bay is attempting to be listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the worlds largest torrent tracker as they have seen an 8 million user increase since last year, putting them up to 22 million users. Clearly nothing is being done that honestly deters piracy when one torrent tracker has seen that sort of boost in its traffic.
Tagged : pirate bay, piracy, world record, drm
