I'm largely sympathetic, but it's not an entirely black-and-white issue. Some DRM systems help content creators and users. For example, Steam and hardware DRM o

I'm largely sympathetic, but it's not an entirely black-and-white issue. Some DRM systems help content creators and users. For example, Steam and hardware DRM on game consoles combat the piracy that is otherwise endemic to games and helped drive traditional PC game developers away from single-player games. HDCP is an example of the opposite extreme. It punishes paying customers, while providing no benefit to content owners unless all other, easier forms of piracy were eradicated. It's pointless to worry about someone cracking hdmi when every available Bluray has already been cracked. The key is that good DRM systems should invisible to paying users. Circumventing them should be just difficult enough that users are motivated to pay.