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0 pointsfsflover4y ago0 comments

DRM does not mean "tons of cryptography" and never did. It means anything restricting users' freedom to do what they want with the data.

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yuuta4y ago· 1 in thread

No. DRM is meant to protect copyrights, but Telegram's intend was to protect private messages from being forwarded to the public, which has nothing to do with copyrights.

fsfloverOP4y ago

DRM is an instrument, which can protect anything. If you apply it elsewhere, it does not stop being DRM.

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