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Originally Posted by AnemicOak
DRM is less caused by pirates themselves than by author/agent fear of pirating.
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It is certainly put in place by authors/publishers... but why? Because of three facts: The existence of P2P sites, chocked full of illegally-obtained files; their incredible popularity; and the documented experiences of the digital music market, the most similar platform there is to compare to. All of that makes for a very legitimate fear. If virtually or literally no one was using P2P sites (or the darknet, or the old newsgroups, etc) to pirate material, they wouldn't see a need for DRM, and it wouldn't be there.
So it is the activity of pirates that directly causes DRM, and their continued resistance against it that causes its escalation.