But Google ultimately won't be able to entirely get around the basic problem of DRM: How do you give people something (so they can watch it), without giving it

But Google ultimately won't be able to entirely get around the basic problem of DRM: How do you give people something (so they can watch it), without giving it to them (so they can copy it)? The more they try to prevent people from accessing YouTube without seeing their ads, the closer they come to the line of "actually, don't let people see the content they're here to see".