Spaced wrote on Nov 9, 2011, 15:29:
Perhaps we're talking past each other a bit then. I'm commenting on this system specifically without comparing it to past efforts. On its own, this system seems pretty unique and effective. Plus, it probably takes far fewer resources to put something like this together than it does spending the time and extreme expense of implementing one of the restrictive third party/dedicated DRM systems used traditionally.

Uh, just because you are in school does not give you the right to steal. And I didn't necessarily mean to throw every pirate in jail. No, there needs to be a selective process and developers should pool their resources together in such a targeted effort (plenty of ways to do this with prosecution options). In fact, I would suggest targeting the original hackers themselves first would be the best approach. Put the people responsible for cracking the software and distributing it in jail first, gauge the result, then determine if further legal efforts are needed among pirate consumers. Again, targeting the source first.