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"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???

If the company is selling me rights to view/listen/copy a product on a particular device, then that is their right. Your choice is not to purchase their product. Maybe the lower sales will convince them to change their policy.

Another way to look at this would be that once the majority of devices support DRM, then the content producers would be more inclined to permit sharing across devices because they would potentially have more assurance that the content is being used by the person that purchased the use of the content in question.

Are you a pirate or thief? I don't know. What do the Terms of Service or law state about the content that you are copying to another device (your MP3 player)? If it says you may copy it to any MP3 player, then you are not, if it forbids this, then yes, you may be a pirate.