I believe people should have the tools at thier disposal to keep thier email communications strictly between themselves and thier intended recipients. If I send an email that is private and meant for you, I don’t want you to be able to forward it to anyone else. Think of having a private conversation over dinner; sending a regular email has the potential to be like standing on your table and shouting the intimate details of your conversation to the room. DRM can keep these type of conversations at a whisper. Nearly everyone has sent an email at one time or another contains content that if forwarded to a wide audience or displayed on the internet could have negative implications. Going a step beyond encryption, DRM gives the sender confidence that they can enforce a level of trust between themselves and thier recipient.

Since encryption is a fundamental part of DRM technologies, expanding the number of people who regularly encrypt thier email helps to preserve our freedom from those in government who might want to overstep the constitutional restrictions of thier powers. I strictly beleive the government has no right to read mine or anybody elses private messages. DRM can help in this by not only encrypting the message, but also by limiting the amount of time the message can be read, after which the keys are destroyed and the message contents are unrecoverable.

In short, people must start approaching DRM technologies as a method for expanding and preserving freedoms, not just limiting them.