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Comment by kstrauser | Hacker News Reader

TL;DR You can't, stop trying. It's not worth the effort, it's tilting at windmills, and it pisses your users off. Just stop.

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I am glad that this guy tried. I found some of the techniques pretty clever and I enjoyed reading the article. I do not believe you can stop people from taking screenshots and stealing images but I never considered some of the techniques the author explained. He was much closer to solving this than I expected.

Instead of that, the author could just talk about why interlacing was used in video in the past. No need to bring any DRM context in the discussion. The tone of the article is what's offending, not the technical details.

Could you please elaborate what's offending you? (author here) for me it was just a fun experiment I didn't intend to offend anyone

Just the notion that DRM is something that should be used in general. I find the concept of DRM to be insulting towards the users.

Also this part:

> seems like there is a problem — let’s solve it for fun and profit

It's like saying: "Police state struggles with policing measures. Let's help it for fun and profit". I hope you get the idea why this can sound offending.

I don't see anything wrong with developing a better bike lock for fun and profit. Not to build a straw-man argument but isn't that the same line of thinking?

I explained the analogy above. DRM is not like a bike lock at all.

Yeah, sometimes it is worth taking a shot at problems that are thought to be unsolvable. It helps you gain deep insight into the problem domain and become a better thinker.

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