If you can show me one, ONE single piece of content for sale today anywhere in the world that can't be downloaded (if the person doing is OK with stealing content, I don't), I'd support DRM. Let me know about that piece of content. It's all about selling multiple copies of the same content to create arbitrary distinctions of use. It's also about making sure that folks who scratch a disk, etc, get to buy another one.

On the obscurity front, that has worked very well to date. There are now over 1.4 Million trojans, virii, etc for the most fiercely hidden OS available today.

On the usability front, just what is needed, 80% of the CPU doing hash checks, pipe control checks, moving and relocating software in a vein attempt to protect content that is already DRM freely available.

I would have thought that as "Pray's For Sure" continues to be on it's death bed that somehow, some way, the industry would learn they are throwing good money after bad. Now how much does all this wizbang coding cost and add to DRM equipment. There is a good reason why I and tens, if not hundreds of millions, refuse to purchase DRM infected content. Eventually, after giving up on the dream of multiple repurchases, HD disks (I suspect the Chinese version to be more popular than Blu-Ray ever will be), content will be sold without DRM at reasonable prices. Remarkably, that's the solution from the very beginning.

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