[Buttons840]

You remind me of a relative I've lost nearly all connection with because he now has a hard line stance on DRM. We used to watch movies and enjoy talking about them, but he wont watch anything that requires streaming. And worse, we used to enjoy playing the same video games and talking about them, but he wont use Steam, and he wont purchase video game consoles anymore.

I share his concerns, but when I weight my choices, I sometimes choose the DRM'ed content. The DRM may make my purchase a "rental", but it's often still an experience I choose to have, despite the cons. I have walked away from my fair share of DRM'ed content on principle, but I don't have such a hard-line stance.

[crtasm]

Does he also avoid the DRM on DVD/Bluray?

At least with games there's a lot you could play together on GOG, most movies never get an official DRM-free release.

[mindslight]

Tell him to up his game and use torrents already. It might not help for games (I think Steam has done a pretty effective job of pulling people into its gravity). But it would certainly fix the divide over movies.

Unless of course he's using it as a way of avoiding getting sucked into too much entertainment in general. But there is such a thing as moderation.