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Funny thing is that most streaming platforms only have DRM because content owners pressure them. It's expensive and a huge hassle to get right.

While indeed DRM barely contributes in fighting redistribution over Pirate Bay, it does prevent stream sharing. Ie.: the platform saves a lot of CDN bandwidth by forcing that onto torrents.



I think this is not entirely true, because HBO and Netflix have DRM on their own shows.




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