You've got good points but the problem is the ease of which your owned good can be exploited to harm others. If it was easy and relatively risk free for people to leave their guns around for others to commit crimes and make money with your gun then it would happen. But it doesn't happen because of liability and the fact that your gun is a physical thing that cannot be easily reproduced. If you did buy a gun and make thousands of copies of that gun and leave them lying around then you are committing another type of liability crime. But guns are an extreme example since with words or works, we don't see the harm in letting a million plus people make their own copies of what we leave lying around. See, this is us wanting our cake and eating it too. We want everything to be free but if it was then who would make anything original? What we're seeing now in the backlash is that less original content is coming out, for example, most movies suck nowadays. So we justify downloading it rather than paying for it because it sucked. And we figure they are making sucky movies because they are trying to get all the money they can from us before it's being given away everywhere for free. Which cme first, the chicken or the egg?

What's missing is personal liability. We have good laws in place but we keep thinking we need new cyber laws. No we need better citizens. And that's on both sides of the equation. People need to understand that they buy a movie then they can loan it out to people but like everything else, those people shouldn't keep loaning it out in the tree-branch effect. On the other side, content creators need to understand that Fair Use will bring them more publicity and open new markets more than not. They also need to see that not all markets are equal. So if the entire country of Whogivesadamnastan who lives in 99.9999% poverty is sharing the content then that does not immediately make it a market. Eventually it will as those people do enter the world economy and start demanding their own original copies.

It's the case of the rotten apple. So yeah, DRM exists because people mostly suck and that hurts those people who suck less.

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