Microsoft Says Preventing Piracy Is Pointless


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Record industry attempts to stop the swapping of pop music on online networks such as Kazaa will never work.

So says a research paper prepared by computer scientists working for software giant Microsoft.

The four researchers believe that the steady spread of file-swapping systems and improvements in their organisation will eventually make them impossible to shut down.

They also conclude that the gradual spread of CD and DVD burners will help thwart any attempts to control what the public can do with the music they buy.

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Microsoft is pretty much hit it on the head. Unless someone develops some kind of arcane anti-theft technology, then there is not much of a point in spending billions on it (industry wide), seeing as how that would probably cost more to develop than they would make selling the amount of product they are trying to stop from being copied. Microsoft makes most of their money off corporations anyway. Home users are really just whipped cream on pumpkin pie. It isn't necessary, but it sure does taste better.

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Along with MP3s, I don't think they will ever win the fight over software piracy with all the technology. I think instead of wasting money on prevention they should try and develop software that has a great advantage of actually being bought and used out of the box.

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I hate replying to my own article so here's the Register's take on the report:

The Register

Could some benevolent mod get this to the front page, mayhaps? :happy: Thanks. I don't care about cred just the news.

Fotix

there IS an edit button fyi... :crazy:

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this is a really good article. it made me think about how i was about to buy a sony netmd but then i heard about all the crap that you had to go through to put songs on there and decided not to buy it. i think that alot of people who actually know about the technology are going to stay away from DRM systems and those dont know are going to find out about it the hard way.

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