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You miss the point. DRMed digital goods cannot be resold. When you go to Kindle and get an ebook, all of the buttons say buy prominently, yet everything in the license says you are merely renting it for an undetermined amount of time, until the company decides otherwise. How is that not false advertising? They should be forced to change their text.

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Of course DRM-enabled goods can be digitally resold. It depends on the type of DRM being used. That would be one reason to have DRM. As I said, Apple is working on this now.

Does the restriction and ledger of BitCoin also implement so called DRM?

It does implement technological and other measures to guarantee the security of the whole blockchain.

(yes, it is a strained analogy, however one you would have to go up against in making new law or changing old laws)

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