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Over the course of my life, DRM-restricted streaming services. I once thought people would be naturally against that. You're going to want to have your own copy of media you love to keep forever, right? Apparently I was wrong.
I can kind of understand DRM in subscription streaming services. What I don't understand at all is people paying to "buy" DRM-protected media where you don't even get a local copy, like all major digital movie purchase platforms.
Most physical media still has region restrictions and other license restrictions. Look at the Xbox and it refused to play people's physical disks... Sometimes you can get a region free DVD/BR player but often not. And all those have DRM built in. So you're not streaming the DRM you just physically own the DRM. Cool.
And HDMI with drm built in...
Yeah that's almost as bad but represents a relatively small period in the history of physical media, that's why I point to streaming mainly. Though at least you could look after your physical media without having it turned off when some streaming service decides to. I grew up in the era of cassette tapes and wouldn't have dreamed of buying music without making a cassette backup and that wasn't even abnormal.