on DRM

I really, really, REALLY hate DRM. Especially when it screws honest people. - WWdN: In Exile:

This [the hassle it takes for Will to actually read his own works on the platform of his choice] is the sort of thing that drives honest people to piracy, because the pirates are providing a better end user experience for them than the legal alternatives.

Dan Bricklin, who was the coder that developed the first spreadsheet all those years ago, wrote more or less the same thing about the original Napster. "Theft" or not, it provided the interface of convenience that was more important than anything else to the user base.  What was important about Napster wasn't the music itself, but the direct ID3-based search model, something iTunes and Amazon took quite a while (re: years after Napster's legal demise) before really supporting.

Torrents are the same way - a simple search finds what they want, in a format that gives no restrictions on where it can be played, for how long, leaving the viewer in total control.  The lack of control (hell, the 2 dozen wasted DVD-ROMs I have of "Digital Copies" that have all expired, having never watched a single one) is actually a major turn-off.