You presumably accept, though, that there are valid reasons for being able to trace a car back to its owner? To my mind, when something can be trivially duplicated, as digital goods can, there are valid and proper reasons for being able to tie those copies to the original purchaser. Are you aware of the hypothetical situation you describe ever having happened? The fact that people do pirate digital goods is far from hypothetical; it happens every day, and there are (IMHO) compelling reasons for being able to trace the origin of such items.
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