[shmerl]

> Are you insulted by any business that has video cameras?

I'd surely be, if that business would have any business putting said cameras in my home, like DRM is deployed to police users on their computers and OS they are using - i.e. their private digital space.

That's the overreaching part in DRM being an overreaching preemptive policing. People get the concept of overstepping physical privacy for preemptive policing being unacceptable, so it's the same idea for the digital one.

[recursive]

DRM has nothing to with policing.

If the DRM kicks in, the product might stop working.

If you get "policed", you might end up in jail by force.

[shmerl]

Policing doesn't need to imply jail, it can mean any policy enforcement, such as: the enforcement of regulations or an agreement.

DRM is without a question a policing method, one that's preemptive and overreaching by its definition.