I'm not sure why you think that your "principles of DRM" are principles of DRM, or even implemented in practice. Displaying the license of a piece of software as a click-through thing was standard practice before DRM. Having terms and conditions on mp3 download sites still happens. There are various ways of providing metadata with content (such as a URL field in an mp3 or Ogg Vorbis file) which provides the user with a way of paying for the content. There are projects like Creative Commons to encourage common types of fair use without DRM.
To go back to your example with the diamond merchant, the attitude of many people seems to be "well, I have to wear these handcuffs, but I have boltcutters so it's OK", which ignores the encroaching legislation to make boltcutters themselves illegal.
I really can't see a situation where a DRM solution is (a) better than a non-DRM solution and (b) not outweighed by the downsides and abuses of DRM.
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Date: 2005-02-22 11:36 am (UTC)To go back to your example with the diamond merchant, the attitude of many people seems to be "well, I have to wear these handcuffs, but I have boltcutters so it's OK", which ignores the encroaching legislation to make boltcutters themselves illegal.
I really can't see a situation where a DRM solution is (a) better than a non-DRM solution and (b) not outweighed by the downsides and abuses of DRM.