[enraged_camel]

He's not comparing the two. He is not saying "DRM is like a police state."

He's saying that both DRM being a bad thing and a police state being a bad thing are self-evident truths.

(I'm not taking sides, just hoping to clarify.)

[shmerl]

To clarify - I am saying that DRM shares core ideas with police state methods. Some of them. I explained that above: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8070304