[tveita]

> DRM is the price one must pay to consume BIG MEDIA content.

It's just what big media has happened to get away with.

If they found themselves without a way for their paying customers to access their content via DRM, they'd drop the requirement on the spot, with little to no financial impact except for DRM scheme licensing fees.

[Mindwipe]

They really wouldn't. They'd just move into proprietary hardware. Several of them already have.

Most studios really wouldn't find blocking all PC access to their content to materially affect them.