I don't think DRM protects content at all. Every DRM scheme out there has been broken (or will be soon, if it just came out). It is trivially easy for any inte

I don't think DRM protects content at all. Every DRM scheme out there has been broken (or will be soon, if it just came out). It is trivially easy for any interested party to find copies of content with DRM removed. In fact I'd say this content is more accessible than if there were no DRM and the only obstacle were having to splice together chunks of unencrypted stream data transmitted by the authorized source. I was at someone's house the other day, a Netflix subscriber mind you, and the Netflix app wouldn't work on his laptop for whatever reason. He went to a pirate site and had the show playing within 30 seconds. What DRM does protect, is the market position of equipment and software vendors that have the resources to sign on as DRM licensees.