Quote Originally Posted by Gregoshi
Point taken on the convenience factor Lemur. I still question the distrust issue. Since you seem more knowledgable on this issue than I, do you think this is really an issue for Joe Blow consumer? I suspect it is more important to the younger, more tech saavy consumers though - a generalization, I know. I can't say I've ever felt like a victim buying and watching DVD/CDs, but am I just blissfully ignorant that I'm being taken to the cleaners by the industry?
Google "Sony rootkit" for a good intro into why some people distrust the industry. Sony, in particular, just loves to screw it's customers.

DRM will not stop piracy, and the industry has to know this. Before the intraweb, fairly simple techniques could be used to prevent "casual" copying. This would not stop the real pirates, but they still had to go through the hassle of distributing the content. Now, all it takes it for one person to break a DRM scheme, and the content is out there for anyone to get on the net. The industry still has the mentality that it has to stop people from copying CDs for their friends (there's a forest somewhere in all of those trees...), and DRM just makes it harder for the paying customer to enjoy the content. I know a few people who buy CDs/DVDs, leave them in their shrink-wrap, and download the content just so they can eliminate some of the crap (the FBI warning being one of them) and use it in whatever format they want.