I have come to find the whole circular debate about DRM particularly boring. So much so, that I won't bother to read the whole article or comments here. Yes,

I have come to find the whole circular debate about DRM particularly boring. So much so, that I won't bother to read the whole article or comments here. Yes, DRM is always broken - eventually, but yes it does work - sort of. It is a technology and legal arms race in a constantly changing landscape. > DRM's purpose is to give content providers control over software and hardware providers, and it is satisfying that purpose well. No not really. DRM's purpose is to give content providers a return on their investment, everything else is just a consequence of trying to achieve this. DRM isn't going to go away as along as people want to be paid for creating content, and other people want to get that content without paying for it. Sadly it is probably true that it is always the biggest players that get the biggest slice of the pie. Irritatingly the open source community refuse to engage in this battle and support the small player. As a consequence the smaller content providers have no choice but to hook up with the big commercial channels who decide how big a cut they want.