First, for those of you who have ignored the internet for the last several months, a brief explanation: DRM is the acronym for Digital Rights Management. They are a set of technologies employed by manufacturers, publishers, and copyright holders, and are used to control viewing, use, and sharing after the point of sale. When you have already paid for a product, these measures keep you from being able to say, make a digital copy of a movie that you own to watch on your tablet or iPad.

DRM is the reason you can’t read your Kindle e-book without downloading an app from Amazon. There is software all over the internet that allows you to remove DRM but it is actually illegal to employ this method in order to use the movie, e-book, or game on another device—even when you own said material.

I’m not saying that DRM is bad, but it’s useless when dealing with pirates. If someone wants to steal your copyrighted material, then they will. DRM only controls the people who actually buy the product. The honest guys –you and me. The stealing type people can hack the codes because it isn’t even hard anymore.
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