Either way, DRM isn't "working in practice" if all the information it purports to protect is publicly available. DVD's have (broken) DRM, so ripping a DVD coun

Either way, DRM isn't "working in practice" if all the information it purports to protect is publicly available. DVD's have (broken) DRM, so ripping a DVD counts as breaking DRM. Screeners are also a work around for DRM. Hacking a content provider wouldn't provide the constant stream of content that is available from various separate companies. I think that denying that DRM is broken requires some pretty serious ignorance of the reality of the situation.