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Originally Posted by Steve Jordan
DRM's tying people to specific devices is actually a side-effect of the actual intent, which is to prevent illegal sharing... which DRM doesn't do well. Encryption may make it easier for the user to specify as many devices as he owns to read a file, but it still doesn't prevent illegal sharing well (because, as you pointed out, the encryption can still be removed).
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DRM intent is to get content owners to make as much of their content available in electronic form as possible without inconveniencing users too much. If you are a DRM vendor, ultimately you have to
convince copyright holder to distribute his content.
DRM is an evolving area, but many people would say that a hight quality DRM system would stay out of the way as much as possible as long as what is being done with the content corresponds to the content's license.