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0 pointsafiori4y ago0 comments

story time: in some country poultry farmers are given based on selling prices of their products, except that for this particular case there is no market consult so the farmer is asked "how much would have people payed for your stuff" and he or she guesses some number.

obviously everyone cheated that question to get more money; a year they essentially changed the module to add a "are you lying?" question and suddenly this lowered significantly the overestimated prices farmers declared

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this does not apply 1-1 to DRM in telegram (they removed the download option, not just added a warning), but I find it a relevant story to a broad interpretation of "DRM doesn't work"

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Zambyte4y ago

"DRM doesn't work" in the sense that it does not, and cannot, stop users from copying media, it only can make it more difficult. Of course being more difficult can dissuade some non zero % of people who otherwise would have committed the terrible act of Unauthorized Copying, so you could say it works in that sense.

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