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by castell 4065 days ago
You are wrong. DRM != copy protection

You can own the DVD with a copy protection and even legally create a backup-copy. You simply cannot own a DRM product, as its bound to a server side check. DRM products may suddenly vanish from your PC, or change its content. Valve already wiped some games and changed the regional settings (removing games from certain parts of the world in retrospect) and Rockstar released an automatic patch for GTA San Andreas (2005) over Steam which altered the game (broke several features like widescreen support, removed several songs from radio stations)
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vacri 4065 days ago
Copy protection is a form of DRM. It is used to manage rights to digital content. You're redefining DRM to mean "the trend of selling licenses rather than software", which is only one form of DRM.
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castell 4065 days ago
It's the other way around! DRM is a specific form of copy protection. Read the DRM article on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management

  "The term [DRM] is also sometimes referred to as copy 
  protection, copy prevention, and copy control, although 
  the correctness of doing so is disputed."
And read http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copy_protection
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