

you cannot see this article without seeing this ad) using digital means. NOTE: when I say DRM, I actually mean Digital Policy Enforcement - the publishers want to maintain their policies around access to their information (e.g. So all this JS-based workaround to try to DRM things only brings more work for everybody involved, with minimal results. It's a neverending arms escalation between those who want to restrictively publish information, and those that want the information without restrictions. But also we now need NoScript, JS blockers, 3rd party blockers, and the publishers invest in anti-adblocks. Or sufficiently dedicated people to run a headless browser to run the Javascript and re-build the content and work on the rebuilt DOM. Only humans in front of the web browser will be able to see the data. If the web server is serving a DRM-ed program, that loads the human-viewable data over non-standard interfaces, all that breaks. If the web server is serving a document, you can do all sorts of stuff with it - you can index it, you can transform it, you can save it for later. Because we want the information to be free.
