<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>geofft</author><text>Well, circumvention of DRM by technical means is currently forbidden by copyright law. This isn&amp;#x27;t great, but I suspect it has an effect of moderating just how bad DRM is.&lt;p&gt;Remember that there are two reasons DRM is bad. The first is that it prevents you from doing things permitted by copyright law (e.g., fair use). The second is that it has unrelated side effects to your computing freedom. The recent batch of DRM, like streaming from Spotify, is &lt;i&gt;nowhere near&lt;/i&gt; as bad for your computing freedom as stuff like Sony&amp;#x27;s rootkit &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootk...&lt;/a&gt; . The first downside is true of all DRM; the second is true of only some.&lt;p&gt;Because it is not legal to just have a GitHub project explaining how to break Spotify&amp;#x27;s DRM, there&amp;#x27;s no incentive for Spotify to be as malicious as Sony. Their DRM only has to be good enough to convince the publishers that it works. If we say that all copyright protection is off, and DRM stands or falls &lt;i&gt;entirely&lt;/i&gt; on its technical strength, we encourage an arms race. There will be non-sketchy websites offering reliable and well-engineered DRM removal tools, and the labels will point to them and insist that Spotify step up their game.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Johnny_Brahms</author><text>I have always said that DRM protection should automatically void all copyright protection. If you make it impossible for your work to enter public domain, you should not have the same protection as works that will.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yes, All DRM</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/yes-all-drm</url></story>
<instructions>Your goal is to analyze the following comment and estimate how highly it will be upvoted by the Hacker News community.</instructions><comment><author>neikos</author><text>That&amp;#x27;s an interesting thought.</text><parent_chain><item><author>Johnny_Brahms</author><text>I have always said that DRM protection should automatically void all copyright protection. If you make it impossible for your work to enter public domain, you should not have the same protection as works that will.</text></item></parent_chain></comment><story><title>Yes, All DRM</title><url>https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2016/05/yes-all-drm</url></story>