Well, hopeless relative to the hopes that some people had at that time. For example, from Wikipedia:
BD+ played a pivotal role in the format war of Blu-ray and HD DVD. Several studios cited Blu-ray Disc’s adoption of the BD+ anti-copying system as the reason they supported Blu-ray Disc over HD DVD. The copy protection scheme was to take “10 years” to crack, according to Richard Doherty, an analyst with Envisioneering Group.
and
The first titles using BD+ were released in October 2007. Since November 2007, versions of BD+ protection have been circumvented by various versions of the AnyDVD HD program.[
DRM is not very effective at protecting static targets—such as a large installed base of identical DVD players—where one crack can compromise all the content. It’s rather better at protecting content which is more dynamic—such as software—where each game can ship with its own type of polymorphic DRM.
Despite a massive base of installed readers, Kindle DRM has been somewhat effective—despite being cracked. Much content that people are prepared to pay for has not, in practice, been ripped yet.
Much content that people are prepared to pay for has not, in practice, been ripped yet.
Evidence, numbers? (This is my second request for evidence and numbers.) There’s a long tail of books available for Kindle that have approximately no readers.
People buy stuff because they think they should and it’s easy to, not because of DRM. (This was the surprise for the record industry that the iTunes model actually worked—they had previously been creating terrible music stores that didn’t work just for the purpose of creating evidence that filesharing was costing them actual money.)
Well, hopeless relative to the hopes that some people had at that time. For example, from Wikipedia:
and
DRM is not very effective at protecting static targets—such as a large installed base of identical DVD players—where one crack can compromise all the content. It’s rather better at protecting content which is more dynamic—such as software—where each game can ship with its own type of polymorphic DRM.
Despite a massive base of installed readers, Kindle DRM has been somewhat effective—despite being cracked. Much content that people are prepared to pay for has not, in practice, been ripped yet.
Evidence, numbers? (This is my second request for evidence and numbers.) There’s a long tail of books available for Kindle that have approximately no readers.
People buy stuff because they think they should and it’s easy to, not because of DRM. (This was the surprise for the record industry that the iTunes model actually worked—they had previously been creating terrible music stores that didn’t work just for the purpose of creating evidence that filesharing was costing them actual money.)