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Empirical Study Shows DRM Encourages Infringement

Posted by timothy on from the next-week-how-gravity-lures-skiers-to-mountains dept.

Hucko writes "Ars Technica has a story about a study by Cambridge law professor Patricia Akester that suggests (declares?) that DRM and its ilk does persuade citizens to infringe copyright and circumvent authors' protections. The name of the study is 'Technological accommodation of conflicts between freedom of expression and DRM: the first empirical assessment.'" The study itself is available for download (PDF); there's also a distillation here.

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  1. Re:and the pirates win again by stewbacca · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    The majority of users are also affected when they have to sit through the "FBI warning" nonsense which are afflicted solely on legitimate buyers.

    Oh, the agony of those extra 10 seconds!

  2. Re:and the pirates win again by stewbacca · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    Cool - you can mock ten seconds. What if it were ten minutes?

    But it isn't, so what's your point?