"This has nothing to do with DRM, and everything to do with Google/YouTube removing search results " DRM is absolutely part of the IP control strategy. DRM is

"This has nothing to do with DRM, and everything to do with Google/YouTube removing search results " DRM is absolutely part of the IP control strategy. DRM is not 'easily broken'. 99.9% of people have no idea how to do it, and this slows the proliferation of content quite a lot.