Just like they are on cancer, and AIDS, and drug-resistant bacteria?
There will ALWAYS be a way out. Whether you believe humans got here by evolution or not, there's no doubt it exists in today's world. And anything Microsoft and Intel might come up with will simply be cracked, or purely circumvented. You want the perfect way for Apple to get back to a 25% market share and for Linux to REALLY take off, using Crusoe chips or something? Just create hardware and OSes that physically refuse to let its users do what they used to be able to do. A lot of people won't even bother hacking, they'll just switch.
Let them..
And let the manufacturers produce their product exclusively for propritary hardware.
They can switch, but it won't help them.. Eventually some smart (and soon to be rich) individual is going to come up with a way to protect copyrighted material.. and when he does, all this file sharing stuff is over.