I've seen it said that DRM manages rights like prisons manage freedom.
I prefer to call it Digital Restrictions Management. That's what it's "managing", after all: restrictions on what you can do with what you just bought. And yeah, I get all crabby when people use the publishers' terms in a place like MR which should be reader-oriented. Well, there's a few shills we can't do much about (you've spotted one here, I think) but we can still at least choose our language instead of letting the bad guys choose it for us.
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