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You are confusing rights management and licensing with its technical implementation.

DRM will never go away. Licensing and access is a core part of distribution and even more important now with digital everywhere.

It is far better to have a central standard and streamlined experience today rather than try to maintain a "clean API" which nobody cares about while continuing the terrible performance and security of external plugins.




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