Reality vs Practical Reality

There are realities, and then there are realities.

The reality is the movie, TV, and video game industries are leaky sieves, and are quite possibly losing lots of money to pirates who procure and distribute their work for free online. In return, these industries have taken measures to stop the leaks — lacing their work with draconian digital rights management software and other tricks that punish legitimate users more than pirates.

The practical reality is if you create content, it will be stol...