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Originally Posted by ApK
Speaking of Devil's Advocacy: The first couple centuries of copyright law were indeed all about this. Making an unauthorized copy of a book for most of that time meant, if not manual transcription, then an expensive, hot and heavy session with a xerox machine at best, so saying "this is illegal" was usually enough to stop John Q. Public from making the investment.
Now, it's so much faster, easier and cheaper, it is quite possible for an average John Q. Interweb to ACCIDENTALLY distribute millions of perfect duplicates of someone's IP. It's not hard to see why rights owners would want some technological protection.
ApK
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I don't see how anyone can accidentally distribute a large number of copies. If I post a download link to the file, that's not an accident, though I may not realize how many copies will get downloaded.
And in any case, DRM does not stop distribution because it doesn't offer any real protection. It's just an annoyance to the least technologically capable people; people who just want to change devices or share with a family member.