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What makes you think DRM has worked up to now? Which content is unavailable for pirating because of DRM?

As far as I can tell DRM has only ever punished, and still only punishes, legitimate users.

It only punishes users if it is badly implemented. I doubt many users of Steam or Netflix feel punished.

I can't watch my Netflix account on Linux without using some Wine distribution because of the Silverlight DRM. I'd say I feel pretty punished on that end.

Yeah well your use case doesn't fit the "many" qualifier that was mentioned in the comment you replied to.

I disagree. Even though Linux desktop usage isn't a huge percentage (~1%?), I would consider 1% of millions "many".

I would consider many to be a worthless weasel word, that tells us nothing other than more than one but less than even a significant minority.

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