I think your outlook is unnecessarily bleak. While you're right DRM certainly contributes to the unlikelihood that all, or even most, of current digital cultur

I think your outlook is unnecessarily bleak. While you're right DRM certainly contributes to the unlikelihood that all, or even most, of current digital culture will survive, that's not the relevant bar to clear IMO. If even a single copy of a 20th century encyclopaedia survives (never mind a Wikipedia dump! No DRM there), the 120th century will have a vastly richer corpus of knowledge about the 20th century than we do about the 1st century (probably any pre-Gutenberg century).