If you can't fence the product then there's no motivation to steal it in the first place.
Couple of big problems with this thought:
* You have to know you can't fence it. Do you think bike thieves are following exactly which e-bike models have DRM, whether it has been broken etc? I doubt it.
* It assumes that the DRM is so amazing that nobody figures out how to defeat it.
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I seriously doubt any kind of DRM is going to dissuade bike thieves. It hasn't really worked for phones has it?
It has. Yes people still steal iPhones but not even close to levels pre-Activation Lock.
If you can't fence the product then there's no motivation to steal it in the first place.
Naturally, this is why we should add GPS and a network connection to every device in existence. /s
Couple of big problems with this thought:
* You have to know you can't fence it. Do you think bike thieves are following exactly which e-bike models have DRM, whether it has been broken etc? I doubt it.
* It assumes that the DRM is so amazing that nobody figures out how to defeat it.
So it might be true, but it also might not.