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Originally Posted by JSWolf
DVD? Don't you mean ePub?
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Before DRM on DVD was broken you couldn't even play DVDs on Linux, UNIX or BSD (Only MacOS & Windows), never mind back up to HDD. So DRM on PDFs (1st), DVDs and ePubs. Region locking is also evil.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeCSS
The latest evil is Widevine.
You are watching the streaming you paid for on the tiny screen. You decide to Cast or use the HDMI port to your TV and you get a blank screen
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Widevine
However it's a Full HD screen and the commercial pirate will point a camera at it, or bribe a projectionist in the cinema, or bribe someone in the studio, or steal the entire unreleased movie from Netflix (who only had it on loan) because they left it in a drawer (Netflix are currently being sued).
DRM is not about copyright, but control.
Somehow it's fair use for the AI corps to scrape everything, for Alphabet/Google to scan everything (earlier ruling). The USA courts don't care about copyright or creators, only the interests of big USA corporations.
See also Sony crippled the Minidisc. It was too late when they relented and brought out models without crippled I/O.
We are all paying HDCP royalties on HDMI which is a pointless DRM.