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Message: <blockquote data-quote="JohnRTroy" data-source="post: 4700549" data-attributes="member: 2732">Technology can still be regulated.  Just because the technology exists doesn't mean it will be adopted or can't be restricted.  Don't delude yourself and think that.  Here are some examples.We have nuclear weapons.  Outside of testing they haven't been used in war since Nagasaki.  We have the technology, why haven't we used it?  (Rhetorical question, in case anybody tries to answer).We have the technology to counterfeit money.  Does that mean we throw the money system out, and give up?  No, we improve the protections, and heck, the government even got Adobe to create algorithms in the software to prevent counterfeiting of monetary patterns.We have Cable TV.  You can tap the cable TVs from the line.  You can also hack into scrambled sats.  Does that mean they can't enforce the laws and prevent this?  And speaking of TV, Radio and TV should have done what you suggested, make it possible to not have to purchase a product to enjoy art.  But we still do, and TV and Radio setup rules to compensate the artist, and commercials is what pays for most TV.You see what I am getting at?  Technologies are regulated and controlled.  Laws are setup to regulate technology.  Don't delude yourself and think that the Internet is going to always be the wild west of piracy.  I dislike forms of DRM, but I also think they might be necessary, and as long as they are regulated and controlled so we don't suffer from lost purchases, and as long as they are as good as Valve's Steam and Apple's iTunes, I think we'll see more of this, not less.  Some people object to DRM "on principle", but if people keep justifying piracy and profits go down, I doubt that you'll see this go away.  It's hard to be anonymous when there are only so many ISPs and even fewer backbone networks.</blockquote>

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