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Originally Posted by borked
...This is the technical stuff - stream rippers are two a penny these days, but follow this sequence of events and your streams are 100% secure. The only way to "rip" your stream is to have a screen capture program record full playback of your move. Impossible to prevent that!
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So basically, the illicit version, even if screen captured, will likely be of higher quality* and of more usability than what paid members will have access to.
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Streaming quality is dependent on sustained throughput, which for many users will be mediocre - pirates are likely to have both a fast connection and a powerful computer for nearly perfect capturing.
Why should one pay for something that's inferior to the free / lower cost version ... seems to me that locking down content, as you described, may be effective in reducing pirating, but will also drive away many paying customers. Paid membership should be a value added, fun experience not a value subtracted, locked down misery.
Ron