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What you've described is the literal, dictionary definition of Digital Rights Management - a technology to restrict the use of a digital asset beyond the contractually-agreed terms. Copying is only one of many uses that the copyright-holder may wish to prevent. The regional lockout on a DVD had nothing to do with copy-protection, but it was still DRM.


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