Re:Car door locks (Score 2, Insightful)

I thought I would mention something regarding the car door analogy.

Many people seem to be missing the point here. The point of the analogy is not the status of the car, which of course is a piece of property, but the level of security. A car is not hard to steal, but most people don't steal it. That is the point. The point is not whether a car is worth stealing or who owns it. Similiarly, the Mightywords DRM was not designed to protect the content perfectly, or even very well. It was designed to keep the average honest person honest about their purchase, and to allow easy use of the product. This is also true with car doors. This is Don's point in his reply to Dmitry. Arguing the nature of the digital property in the context of the car door analogy just shows the lack of understanding of the analogy in the first place.

Also, as people have noted, it is impossible to secure digital content when it must be decoded at some point into a plain-text format in a system which is not proof to tampering. Mightywords understood this and made a compromise.

Karl