It takes on average 90 minutes to turn a DVD with DRM into DRM Free Xvid/Divx/MKV files, less to turn it into a DVD Image burnable by 99% of all software. The same process will remove any 'ads' such as the 'Piracy is theft' garbage.
So, tell me again how much of a speed increase not putting DRM onto the media would cause? The encryption identification and removal stage of the above takes less than 10 seconds.
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Originally Posted by Ignitionnet
Remember how optical media is made. It's not with a great big bank of DVDRW drives.
DRM is an automated process, the content is delivered already encoded to the media producers to be 'pressed' onto optical media. There's next to zero overhead there in most cases.
Even PC games, the 'cutting edge' of DRM are usually protected automatically, the publisher sends the unprotected files to a 3rd party who return the files protected and ready to be pressed. Alternatively there's some integration on the part of the programmers, but hey it's what they are paid to do.
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you save the money involved in applying DRM. You stop the current EA debacle where to play games such as C&C4 you MUST have an internet connection even to play an offline skirmish game. Even if you bought the game in a retail store.