If DRM can give something back to the artists being copied left and right in the age of digital reproduction then it's a good thing. Only the manufacturer of the OS can control enough technical aspects to impose a level of restrictions in direct proportion to the value of the content to be protected. Ultimately, with the proliferation of digital recording means, no system is failsafe as some enduser has to be able to view the content at least once, that is long enough to digitize. We have to work on moral awareness, responsibility, law and values to protect any intellectual property. All analog devices allow their contents to be easily copied. It has not prevented artists, producers, distributors to enrich themselves in the past, I do not think the Internet will, au contraire.

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