Not at all clear to me that waiting it out is a winning strategy. There is no deterministic path for other media to follow music away from DRM, and indeed there

Not at all clear to me that waiting it out is a winning strategy. There is no deterministic path for other media to follow music away from DRM, and indeed there is a threat that a faux-standard as proposed will mean that DRM becomes the expectation and demand of/by record companies, again.