How to prevent screenshots in a web browser

1) Ship your own lock-down hardware (tablet) to customers, so they can visit your website

2) Install booths around country which will show your website. No cameras or phones allowed inside!

Authentication and information security has nothing to do with DRM, even though both can have features like encryption. Let's not mix unrelated subjects.

What is the limiting of who can have my personal data and when, but Digital Rights Management, or DRM? One cannot stop at authentication, because to be complete, one has to prevent copying data. Without this, it becomes problematic to trace who has released information, and without some legal support, nothing at all is practical.

DRM can not be trustworthy by its mere definition

Sorry, but this is fluff. You could apply this "logic" to authentication as well. DRM has to involve some mutual trust and cooperation to the same extent that any protocol involves mutual trust and cooperation.

The key is to realize that DRM as practiced by corporations is evil and unworkable because the economics were utterly unrealistic. Really, where DRM could help individuals would be the elimination of trivial deniability on the part of corporations. Right now, when your data privacy is breached, there is no cost to "break" anything and it's very hard to pin this on a particular corporation. Add a DRM mechanism, and then there is something tangible to apply protection laws to and a labor cost with definite intent to breach an individual's privacy. In aggregate, the cost and potential legal liability becomes too high to for virtually any corporation to contemplate. We would arrive at a situation where corporations could afford to violate the privacy of a few select individuals, but could no longer do so to the public wholesale. Ordinary citizens would enjoy a measure of protection, though rich individuals and corporations would not.

Sounds pretty good to me.

Underlying everything, I'm not so much advocating DRM, as I'm calling to question emotionally charged "magical thinking" combined with naive induction. Let's not just leave things at "DRM is bad" devoid of real examination of what's happening.

EDIT: It also occurs to me that the historical factual differences between individuals and corporations should be used to modify the current formulation of "legal persons." "Legal Persons" should be considered as "persons" only in terms of a few specific factors, like the owning of property. The historical difference between actual and legal persons with regards to data privacy abuses would be an important corpus of information in support of this.

What is fundamentally broken is the idea of overreaching preemptive policing (DRM).

The record clearly shows that applied to individuals, DRM becomes "fundamentally broken overreaching preemptive policing."

The same record clearly shows that turned around 180 degrees, DRM is entirely appropriate. What's broken for protecting a single piece of information the whole Internet wants becomes viable for protecting information chiefly valuable to the individual. DRM applied in reverse against corporations is "economically viable historically supported policing."

If the watermark can be removed without making the image largely useless then you're not watermarking properly. Sure, its not pretty, but this isn't a pretty world. I never understood the lazy bottom-right watermark. Its trivial to remove and sites like reddit reward fraud because people like to pretend its their content as narratives like "Oh i bought a camera and took my first photo" are eaten up by low-information voters (who i imagine are the plurality of votes on reddit).