The Awesome Adventures of Captain Spirit (Free demo / teaser for Life is Strange 2)

Yeah, the first thing I thought was how pointless and stupid is having drm on a free demo. That just sounds absurd.

Thinking about it some more, I can come up with two guesses for why they might have done it. They might be afraid someone could look at files from the demo (if they weren't protected) and try to use that to figure out how to remove protection from the full game when it comes. Or maybe they just used the same system that they're using for the full game in the demo, and were too lazy to take the drm out. Why bother to remove something like that for something they aren't even getting paid for?

If neither of those are the cause then I don't understand. I would also think it would cost them something to have the protection in the demo because it's a separate product than the main game. So it sounds like they'd lose money over that. If that is the case, then even my second guess would be a dumb reason because it would cost them money to leave the drm in.