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From almost the moment digital media became a thing, we've seen efforts to

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make sure that movies, video games, and tacky music videos with people in

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parachute pants aren't passed around

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illegally. From ominous looking piracy warnings on films to songs telling us

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not to copy that floppy. It's no secret

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that the companies who produce content see the folks who consume it passing

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around their stuff as a serious problem.

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And not too long ago, well, they stopped asking us nicely, well, somewhat nicely,

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and decided to take matters into their own hands by limiting what users could

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and could not do with their copies of Madmen by implementing a technology

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called digital rights management or DRM.

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But how does it work and why does it bother people so much? Now, most early

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DRM existed in the form of encryption and decryption keys. So, your DVD would

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have all the content on it, but it would be scrambled and then your DVD player

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would have a key that allows it to descramble it. But the problem with

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having all these keys out there is eventually someone's going to figure out

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how to hijack the key and use it in a way that it wasn't intended. So, we've

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got a lot more stuff available in the DRM arsenal today. One very common type

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that you should be familiar with if you buy music on iTunes or games using a

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service like Steam is online authentication. Many games and programs

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control the way that they're used by binding purchases to a specific account,

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then requiring the program to check with a remote server that the device or

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account in use is authenticated before letting the media be played back or in

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some cases even installed. So even if you've got all the files, you're more

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out of luck than Sonic the Hedgehog at the bottom of a lake thanks to well also

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much more advanced encryption schemes that exist today. Some particularly

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obnoxious online protection schemes require constant phoning home during

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use, which offers greater copy protection, but also means that you

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can't play at all if something happens to your connection, something only

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legitimate users will have to contend with since pirates will have figured out

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a way to disable the feature. But what if you're watching movies or listening

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to music? Many streaming services such as Spotify and Netflix use some form of

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DRM to prevent people from downloading things to their hard drive to use

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without a subscription. And although some people have found workarounds, many

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of them don't offer the same level of quality as you'd have with a legit copy.

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And then of course there's physical media. physical media like Blu-rays and

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DVDs is still mostly stuck in the uh

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encryption and decryption key paradigm since they're intended to be played back

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on players that might not actually have

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an internet connection. But there are other schemes like region locking that's

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been around for many years that prevent discs from being played in other parts

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of the world. So, at least if piracy is rampant here, these guys over here won't

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be able to play back that content, unless of course it's ripped in a more

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sophisticated manner. Of course, people

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usually don't like it when they're told what they are or are not allowed to do

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with stuff that they bought. And this has set off a furious debate as to just

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how much DRM is appropriate and even the

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ongoing arms race between coders trying to defeat DRM locks and music movie and

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game studios trying to develop more hacks proof versions of copy protection.

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And this was partially responsible for a famous law in the United States called

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the DMCA, which made it illegal to break

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any sort of DRM, a huge FU to users who

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feel like they should be able to do what they want with the things they've paid

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for, especially when it's not for infringing purposes, like creating

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digital backups in the event of a fire or to be played back on alternate

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devices like their phones if they only own a DVD, which obviously ly isn't

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going to fit in a phone or accessing titles without an internet connection.

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And then of course they're butting heads with the content distributors who say

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that making things available without DRM will lead to rampant piracy in an era

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where people can torrent an entire season of My Little Pony in just a few

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minutes. So who's right here? Well, as

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more and more of what we enjoy goes digital, there's no doubt that both new

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technologies and new policies that try to strike the right balance will

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continue to be tested. And I hope a happy medium can be found. But if not,

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don't worry. I don't plan on encrypting techquicki anytime

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