1. DRM restricts how users and play/read/listen/access what they've purchased. Users are limited to using "approved" devices and software. Thus, DRM completely kills competition and technological advancement unless the product makers kneel to the demands of the DRM owners.
2. DRM restricts what users could previously do freely with what they've purchased, thereby trampling all over existing Fair Use laws. DRM prevents users from making modifications, samples, etc. even for personal, noncommercial, private use.
3. DRM enables big media corporations to require the user to pay multiple times for the same content by making data "expire" at the DRM owners' whim.
4. DRM sets a dangerous precedence for even more restrictive control on existing and future content.
Need I go on?
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