Comment Sometimes yes, within enterprises (Score 1) 684
I don't like DRM in the consumer world, DRM'd media files, games, etc. I agree with all the arguments against using DRM there. Criminalizing decryption is a travesty of justice.
However, there are entirely different contexts where DRM can be a useful tool. For example, in a past job, my company was receiving a sensitive data feed from another company where we had to promise to revoke our internal access to certain parts of the data feed upon demand. We were not worried about internal hackery, but we were worried about inadvertent copies being made within our enterprise for reasonable reasons. (Backups, caches for speed, etc.) We self-imposed DRM, and it was a great solution.