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  • Study: DRM turns normal people into pirates out of necessity

    Study: DRM turns normal people into pirates out of necessity

    We're all pirates because of DRM. That's the conclusion of a new UK study—and it's a long one, coming in at 200+ pages—. The idea here is that the DRM schemes imposed by rights owners do just as good a job at restricting people who have legitimate claims to the material as it does restricting those without any claim at all.

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