Thread: STUDY SHOWS: Ditching DRM could reduce piracy, prices
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Old 10-14-2011, 04:42 PM   #239
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Originally Posted by stonetools View Post
OTOH, there are many products where the law regulates what you do with the product after you buy it-from guns and cars to children's toys.
What are these "many products"? And how are the restrictions built into the product? I'm not supposed to use my legally purchased and licensed gun to shoot my noisy neighbor, and I'll be in big trouble if I do, but there is no doohickey on the gun that prevents me from using it illegally. I'm not supposed to exceed the speed limit with my car, but my car still has the capacity to exceed the speed limit--it doesn't max out at 60 mph.

DRM is inhibiting my use of the product before the fact--before I do anything wrong. It's handcuffing me and preventing my legitimate use. Or it's trying to.
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