[_yasmeen]

>features like protecting copy and paste, and stopping autoplay brought a smile to my face.

This is what we get now when we had developers band together with those who want to protect their "content" that is not valuable enough to be published directly, nor is it original; yet they want to make sure that no one takes their amateur work and makes money from it before they do. This is what we get for wanting to create artist protections without needing formal frameworks or policies: the creatives find a way to do something, and then the replicators find ways to use it en masse.

Protecting content was not an issue after SEO, or before online payments for reading articles online, nor was it ever really necessary. All they do is make sure that those who are motivated to copy their content find ways to do so, with a hassle.