*If* it would be possible to stop all piracy, then the cost of products should go down, if not then they sell less product.
"I still don't get why folks are down on DRM. It seems to me that the only folks that should be down on DRM are the pirates and thieves. I, for one, welcome DRM as it should ultimately (eventually) make it easier (seemless) for me to use my computer to view copyrighted content from whatever form of media that I have chosen to pay for."
You won't be able to... the media can be tied to playback on a specific device. For this usage of DRM, you'll have to pay AGAIN to view it on a different device, if the seller wants you to.
"the only folks that should be down on DRM are the pirates and thieves."
it stops me from placing sounds on my portable mp3, the key word is my not the one they pick for me and it stops me from networking my archived files across my personal network.
does that make me a pirate or a thief???
Pirates and theives could care less about DRM, theyll crack it in a few weeks the people who should be bothered are honest content owners being treated liek pirates and theives. When you start to tell me what systems I can play my legally owned content thats a problem!
If you upgrade computers, how much pain are you willing to suffer through to get your content back?
I wrote a piece of music and stupidly did a quick and dirty mix down of it using MS media encoding.
I was subsequently prohibited from playing MY music on any other machine.
MS really needs to get out of the content protection market and allow a company that knows what their doing deal with it.