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We've proven time and time again that people will pick the legal option as long as it's more convenient and a better product than the illegal one.
Spotify and Netflix stomped piracy in every region they entered, PC games that don't have DRM still sell like crazy through Steam.
And while it would require monitoring of metrics, that's not the same as DRM that prevents you from using something.
But it doesn't sound like you care to imagine a different system or why it would be better, you seem to just want to demand that the concept of information ownership stay exactly as the 1900s US Congress and Court System, in all their unquestionable wisdom, determined it should be.
Steam is not popular because of its DRM. And again, in this scenario, everyone would have access to everything. The system's only job would be tracking what gets downloaded / played and rewarding creators based on that.
Given that you're dismissively talking about a "magic system" while trying to defend against being closed minded towards it, that defense rings pretty hollow.
And I've never said there wouldn't be anyone to enforce it, I said there would be no incentive not to use it.
Given that you can see a different comparable example, and yet instead of just going "yeah like GOG", or thinking to yourself "yeah GOG would be a better example, I get what he means though", you're going "YOU didn't SAY gog WHAT an ASSHOLE", I again, urge you to reflect on whether you're having a good faith conversation or whether you just have a stick up your ass about something and are venting online.
And no, Steam prevents people who haven't purchased a game from playing it. You are fundamentally not understanding what I'm writing if you're not seeing how that's different from a system where everyone has access to everything.
Go back and reread my comments, you have evidently not understood anything I wrote.
Again, you don't understand what I wrote. Read more and write less.
Maybe try being less of an angry gnome.
It's not a conversation, it's you venting the stick up your ass.
Apparently it's a very long stick.