Comment Re:Old skool history of copy protection (Score 1) 281
No, you get to do whatever you like with your house.
However, to prevent people from having a nice house like yours, you've burned all the blue prints and don't let anyone take any pictures. Then you demolish your house when it is no longer useful to you to make sure no one else can enjoy it. Now, it is a loss to society, especially if you had some ground-breaking, architectural inventions in it.
In different times you would execute all your builders and possibly blind your archetect too (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prague_astronomical_clock). I guess DRM has been around forever.