The tech people have done a terrible job of using their leverage. They're inventing the cool hardware and infrastructure, but for some reason, they let the con

The tech people have done a terrible job of using their leverage. They're inventing the cool hardware and infrastructure, but for some reason, they let the content people dictate terms. I want to see the LGs and Samsungs of the world announching "we're making this amazing 16k OLED panel, and the only interface it has is unencrypted DisplayPort. If you don't want to your precious movies on it, there are still stock traders who will buy it to fill with graphs or programmers who will fill it with StackOverflow tabs and vim windows." Sure, Sony could try to make some sort of sealed box viewing system that never let the raw bitstream out-- by the darkness, they've spent the last 30 years trying-- but most of the content firms don't have the technical chops or the market power to make it happen. I can fully imagine them trying to sell multiple different set-top boxes, each of which is only capable of decoding one studio's DRM. On the other hand, what ended up liberating the music market wasn't some grand audiophile product, it was the market full of $29 no-brand/minor-brand "MP3 players". It was such a fragmented market, running random bare-metal firmware on the cheapest MCUs available, that nobody except Apple could possibly make a play out of selling anything but DRM-free content.