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Originally Posted by sircastor
I think what he was saying is that locks help honest people avoid temptation. We're all susceptible to doing things we shouldn't, but it's easier to avoid the temptation if there's some other thing dissuading us.
This always comes down an equation of want vs. consequences. The consequences may be expenditure of time, money, sacrifice of morals, physical danger, prison, etc. I hate to be callous about it, but most people, even the honest ones, have a breaking point. Locks on doors help people avoid that breaking point. DRM helps some people avoid breaking the law. To be fair, I think it's much rarer that a lock keeps you out of your own house
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DRM is not what
helps honest people avoid breaking the law, it's the thought of breaking the law and potential consequences of being caught doing so doing so that does that.
What DRM does do is limit what those honest people can then do with the products that they have legitimately bought. Or the other result of putting DRM on things is it makes honest people have to resort to other means that they would otherwise not have considered in order to obtain the product they want in a form that they want and then do with it what they want.