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title = "Never invest in DRM-ed content"
author = ["Michał Sapka"]
date = 2024-07-29T01:25:00+02:00
categories = ["blog"]
draft = false
weight = 2001
image_dir = "blog/images"
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abstract = "DRM is a fools investement"
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When I was young and dumb, I bought a few movies on iTunes.
I can still access them, at least as long as I have my AppleTV (which is at its last days).
But I will never invest in an Apple Device unless Tim Cook resigns and someone makes a 180° for the company.

I **bought** them, but I don't own them.
All of this is because of DRM.
And breaking DRM in USA is a crime, as per DMCA, so there are not many ready made tools to automate this process.

In a completely unrelated news, Louis Rossmann talks about people loosing access to their bought online content.

{{< yt "RtTdOBCLsyo" >}}
Redbox revokes access to ALL PURCHASED MOVIES &amp; TV: Piracy is COMPLETELY JUSTIFIED!
{{< /yt >}}

It's not that I am against digital purchases, but they need to be **[purchases](/blog/2023/digital-ownership/)**.
Not a file poisoned by DRM, which removes any ownership.

As with most of the modern digital media, the crime is the only way forward.
If you want to pay for something, be it on Steam of iTunes, you need to break the DRM.

But the solution is simple: never buy anything that has any form of DRM.
It's better to subscribe to something like Netflix.
It still sucks, but at least they don't lie in your face.

The better solution: purchase directly from authors (if there is an option) and download illegal copies of anything else.
You can _share_ them with your friends!
For this you need to buy hardware that is not locked, so no consoles or popular mobile phones - which is an additional plus!

Also: don't call it piracy, this word implies that you made something immoral.
Pirates murdered people!