Counterpoint: Consumers’ ability to choose makes DMR legal
It is hardly justifiable for the government to make something illegal just because consumers don’t like it. The free market is based on mutual agreements between consumer and merchant, and DRM is not outside of that realm of mutual agreement.
Let’s take perhaps the most well-known example of DRM today: iTunes store restrictions. I doubt many consumers are particularly thrilled that iTunes restricts the use of a song that they buy. But anyone who buys a song off iTunes clearly does not do so under threat of death — they freely agree to these restrictions when alternative options...
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