[DawnFalcon]

Placitudes...you didn't bother reading the link I gave, of course. That's blindingly obvious.

The Japanese crippled their civilisation in ways which they still have not fully recovered from, suppression of firearms was only one of the goals of such. More, they managed it - and the ban was in many ways nominal, especially among the "outsider lords", although none of the great lords entirely eliminated their firearms - by their effective exclusion of external influences: Which simply doesn't hold today.

Show me the first world country willing to isolate itself, to ban several major religions, reverse the last century of women's rights, reinstitute a strong class system and reinstitute the universal grip of what had been a declining philosophy. THEN I might take you seriously.

(And no, I am not really concerned what N. Korea is doing in terms of DRM)