I think the music industry finally realized that the only thing that DRM was cutting down on was their profits. The set of all people that are going to purchas

I think the music industry finally realized that the only thing that DRM was cutting down on was their profits. The set of all people that are going to purchase is (and will be for the foreseeable future until/unless it becomes much harder than it is now) much larger than the set of people who do purchase their music. All that DRM was causing was piracy on the part of a few unhappy consumers who otherwise would have bought their music. After all, every single DRM-protected music file is floating around and available elsewhere in an unencrypted format.