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Oh, and reguarding "social DRM" if I understand correctly, this concept is not unfamilar to those who grew up with AppleII computers and their feeble attempts at DRM. Namely that it refers to a method of DRM that was not easily defeated by those with merely common knowledge of such things, but was fairly easily defeated by those with a relatively better-than-average understanding of how things worked.
As it happened, it developed that virtually every DRM scheme (I'm using the term DRM loosely) fell into the latter category. Eventually even the pretense of DRM was abandoned by software publishers. (And a shout-out to Beagle Brothers, who never messed with that nonsense to begin with.)
(Correct me if I'm wrong -please!- , because I'm always interested in the history of DRM attempts. I'm talking about technology that is WAY in the past, so I'm assuming this will not violate MR's policies!)
Albert the ancient, who can sometimes be drawn off topic.
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