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For third party sites like googledrive I think you're right but if it is your own site, you can restrict based on referer.

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Even that is easily forged, although that takes care of some casual sharing arguably.

Yeah, the argument I guess is most people won't go that far over small payments like $2-5 kind of like how news sites have a paywall you can bypass with archive.is

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