Comment: DADVSI.... un projet de loi complexe et contreversé, mais comment est-il compris ?

Les experts de Microsoft eux-mêmes le disaient il y a quelque temps dans un rapport public intitulé The Darknet and the Future of Content Distribution :

" There is evidence that the darknet will continue to exist and provide low cost, high-quality service to a large group of consumers. This means that in many markets, the darknet will be a competitor to legal commerce. From the point of view of economic theory, this has profound implications for business strategy: for example, increased security (e.g. stronger DRM systems) may act as a disincentive to legal commerce. Consider an MP3 file sold on a web site: this costs money, but the purchased object is as useful as a version acquired from the darknet. However, a securely DRM-wrapped song is strictly less attractive: although the industry is striving for flexible licensing rules, customers will be restricted in their actions if the system is to provide meaningful security. This means that a vendor will probably make more money by selling unprotected objects than protected objects. In short, if you are competing with the darknet, you must compete on the darknet’s own terms: that is convenience and low cost rather than additional security.

Certain industries have faced this (to a greater or lesser extent) in the past. Dongle-protected computer programs lost sales to unprotected programs, or hacked versions of the program. Users have also refused to upgrade to newer software versions that are copy protected. "

Finalement, l'important n'est peut-être pas tant la protection que la facilité d'usage. iTunes et consorts sont en train de montrer que si c'est facile et pas cher, c'est vendable, avec ou sans protection électronique.