What kind of engineers keep building these anti-consumer, anti-competition DRM systems? Someone should call them out publicly, by name. The world doesn't need more DRM systems.
Speaking as someone who on a variety of occasions has been asked to bake these kinds of restriction into a piece of code, I've tended to follow the restriction to the letter but not the spirit -- yes, this product has "DRM", but yes, any child with a hex editor can disable it in a few minutes. From this I guess that weak DRM is very often entirely intentional. As for the kind of engineer that does it, you do. Or more…
There have been a few instances of this sort of "malicious compliance" that I've noticed, the biggest of which has been Pandora: If you're not in the US, you have to convince their website that you are in order to play music (due to licensing restrictions). However, last I checked, the audio servers have no such restrictions, so you can still stream directly from them rather than having to push that through a proxy as well.