Wrong.
Sony just lost on this in court.
When your DRM makes my computer unusable you are at fault and liable for the damage the DRM caused. Thus the incentive to get Microsoft to do the dirty work (as it is so hard to win against Microsoft as they could care less about bad press).
Unless Microsoft offers a Vista DRM free they will either lose in court or be forced out of the market. I refuse to buy anything that hobbles my computer and makes it unusable for its real purpose and that is not HD Movies. I will not infect my PC with Draconian versions of DRM.
Us tech guys will get the word out and Vista will fail miserably. We already got Microsoft to stop it's scheme of making Vista only installable twice (Buy a third Hard Drive and the OS will not install).
Vista is simply not needed. We will force NVidia et all to make XP versions of hardware until Microsoft removes DRM from Vista.
Enough bad press and Microsoft sometimes listens.
I was unaware of this restriction until I saw it on Free Republic...and it may have even been you who voiced it. When I told that to my brother who works for himself doing PC tech support, he looked at me like I was a lunatic, and said..."WHAT?" I am no Microsoft fan, but I found that a bit shocking. Even as dim a bulb in some techorespects as I am due to my limited scope in certain areas of my work, I grasped the enormity of that pretty quick.