"DMCA".<p>Much as I'd like to just leave it there: Step 2 of this plan would be to sue people for circumvention. The DMCA contains a clause that copy protection must be "effective", but "effective" is not itself defined. This could go either way, although personally I'd argue the people "penetrating" the DRM would be the online newspapers that publish the articles in HTML without being protected, rather than the readers, since that is the point where the DRM is actually getting stripped off, not by the users copying and pasting.