The whole digital rights mess will probably never go away. As long as people produce things that can be digitized (and pretty much everything can be digitized at this point) there will be people prepared to hack whatever protection there was on it and expose it for free. Whether over the internet, or through cheaply made substitutes (think pirated Windows 7 on USB sticks in Southeast Asia). In many cases I think that it is a hopeless cause and that the best action the government can take is to make it difficult for pirated things to be easy to obtain – easier said than done because the same outlets used to pirate content are used to create it!
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