IP rights-holders are hyper-pessimistic paranoid control freaks. See also: the 30-year-long campaign by the RIAA to stop any kind of non-DRMed digital high-fid

IP rights-holders are hyper-pessimistic paranoid control freaks. See also: the 30-year-long campaign by the RIAA to stop any kind of non-DRMed digital high-fidelity consumer recordable media from being marketed. They finally lost it with the advent of the CD-R, but it's the reason that MiniDisc had DRM, Digital Compact Cassette was never "a thing", etc.