IRM preventing screenshots in SharePoint Online

Hello,
We have IRM subscribed and configured for our SharePoint Online site, and it seems to work swimmingly, however, I expected it to prevent a screenshot from being taken.
See:
https://support.office.com/en-us/article/Apply-Information-Rights-Management-to-a-list-or-library-3bdb5c4e-94fc-4741-b02f-4e7cc3c54aa1
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How IRM can help protect content
IRM helps to protect restricted content in the following ways:
Helps to prevent an authorized viewer from copying, modifying, printing, faxing, or copying and pasting the content for unauthorized use
Helps to prevent an authorized viewer from copying the content by using the Print Screen feature in Microsoft Windows
Helps to prevent an unauthorized viewer from viewing the content if it is sent in e-mail after it is downloaded from the server
Restricts access to content to a specified period of time, after which users must confirm their credentials and download the content again
Helps to enforce corporate policies that govern the use and dissemination of content within your organization
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It does not seem to prevent this...am I missing something obvious? Thank you!

My understanding is this is built into RMS/IRM and that there isn't any additional configuration. I have a couple of thoughts, let me know if these apply in your case.
1. Protecting against print screen only works with Windows print screen. 3rd party capture tools may bypass this and still allow a user to take a screenshot.
2. The application needs to be opened in an RMS-aware application (e.g. the Office Suite, Word, Excel, PowerPoint, etc).
Jason Warren
@jaspnwarren
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