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0 pointsdkersten4y ago0 comments

And even if they figured out some DRM method to prevent screenshotting/screen recording, I can still point my phone camera at my monitor and capture it that way, if I really want to. There is always a way around whatever they try to do.

If I can see it, I can make a copy of it.

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cesarb4y ago

> I can still point my phone camera at my monitor and capture it that way

Back in the late 1990s/early 2000s (this was so long ago that I cannot quickly find a reference), there were proposals to require all non-professional audio and video recorders to detect a watermark and disable recording when one was found. Needless to say this was a terrible idea, for several reasons.

Aerroon4y ago

But because they try the rest of us suffer the consequences of more expensive and slower hardware and all kinds of other problems.

dkerstenOP4y ago

Yes. DRM always hurts the legitimate users more than the "pirates". Same with disabling right click or otherwise trying to prevent downloading images.

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