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> 1. DRM realistically wasn't an issue due to pirates (remember naptster?)

IIRC, it did have a couple consequences like Apple embedding PII into music files..

..or going even further back, the arrest of a hacker at a Defcon convention who broke the DRM from eBooks.

I can't specifically recall but I think there was a time a Stanford (?) researcher published a paper on SDMI (?) watermarks in music files as well.