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Originally Posted by TheDoc
Selling access to protected content has it's own legal issues, cracking the content is criminal. American, Canadian, International laws respect this. Screw copyright, screw all the other crap.. The rules totally change. DRM is a good thing for porn, online 'information', scripts/software/programs, limited access/features, etc.
It's not good for people that want to change it, duplicate, backup or "own in hand." this is why Music, DVD's, TV and so on don't do well on DRM. But they do great on demand, without owning it, backing it up, etc.
DRM helps many people make money it just isn't the solution for everyone.
People do not NEED to download the content, they only want to watch it "on demand." Even you said this.
If your tour has the same streaming material as your members area, it offers no downloads, it never says it has downloads, the members will not expect downloads.
They expect what is sold to them and nothing more. If DRM was "the killer" you think it is AEBN wouldn't be the money machine for producers and webmasters, the biggest of them all, that they are.
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canada does not have a law that explictly prohibits breaking drm,bypassing drm for fair use purposes is legal in canada. The us is the only country right now that makes breaking drm in and of itself a violation.
That being said groups like the EFF are trying to get those stupid laws changed/challenged as unconstitutional or sherman anti trust violating in nature.
Their current cause against apples restrictions about jail breaking iphones and competing storefronts for iphone apps are two such examples. If they successfully make the arguement that such unilateral criminilization is anti competitive then it should disappear too.
http://ideas.4brad.com/hitler-tries-dmca-takedown