Scott Granneman at SecurityFocus.com has published a rather lucid article on why DRM is a bad idea. While DRM is somewhat of a niche of the InfoSEC world, the choices we make today will likely have lasting effects on our industry, our liberties and the nature of personal property. Two of his more eloquent quotes follow:

"Digital Rights Managements hurts paying customers, destroys Fair Use rights, renders customers' investments worthless, and can always be defeated. Why are consumers and publishers being forced to use DRM?"

"When I realized that I couldn't copy text out of The Complete New Yorker, I felt like a sucker - a sucker that had been conned by the same people to whom I willingly gave my money. As a college instructor, I especially thought of the loss to my students..."

[NB: Yes. I'm on my soapbox. Time to get off of it again.]