<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><br class=""><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Nov 20, 2019, at 07:38 , Tom Beecher <<a href="mailto:beecher@beecher.cc" class="">beecher@beecher.cc</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Never did figure out if it was stupidity<br class="">or malice driving that.<br class=""></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Personally I think it's neither; it's just $$$$$. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">They could invest in a robust system to accurately identify what they chose not to allow to access the service. Or, they can choose to run with a 'close enough' system with some legitimate users caught in the middle. </div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">They've most likely done the math and decided that the revenue lost from people getting caught up in inaccurate blocking is small enough that the investment in a more accurate method isn't worth it. This is unfortunately the more common decision in this age of worship at the Altar of Maximum Shareholder Value. </div></div></div></blockquote><div><br class=""></div></div>I think you are exactly right here. It’s yet another example of how the incentives around DRM are all messed up and are creating economic bias in favor of screwing consumers as much as possible without loosing too much revenue.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">What is needed is either a more conscientious consumer base that will see this and react by voting with their wallets, or, regulation which provides more costly penalties for screwing over legitimate consumers.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Owen</div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>