It’s running on my physical hardware, and you better damn be sure I’m the only person who gets to decide what my personal hardware does. DRM prevents the final owners of the hardware of making sure they know what’s happening on their own hardware.
If a writer writes something, that sequence of words in the order they wrote is their “property” and they get to determine who gets to see it.
Yes and no. They own it as far as they own the right to copy and distribute it, but they don’t get to determine who gets to see the individual copies. The people who own the copy decide on that. There’s literally no mechanism in the law that prevents people from reading someone else’s book. There’s one for creating copies though.
Imagine purchasing a book meant that instead of getting the book you allow the writer of that book to enter your private rooms and rummage them without you being around, with the promise that they’ll recite the book to you if you ask them and they’re in the mood. That’s what DRM more or less is.
It’s running on my physical hardware, and you better damn be sure I’m the only person who gets to decide what my personal hardware does. DRM prevents the final owners of the hardware of making sure they know what’s happening on their own hardware.
Yes and no. They own it as far as they own the right to copy and distribute it, but they don’t get to determine who gets to see the individual copies. The people who own the copy decide on that. There’s literally no mechanism in the law that prevents people from reading someone else’s book. There’s one for creating copies though.
Imagine purchasing a book meant that instead of getting the book you allow the writer of that book to enter your private rooms and rummage them without you being around, with the promise that they’ll recite the book to you if you ask them and they’re in the mood. That’s what DRM more or less is.