The problems is that we are now putting doubt in legitimate users minds, that means they may seek the already ripped versions from the net rather than go and buy a cd that may, for all intensive purposes, damage your computer, or at least the inner workings of your operating system.
DRM is great for the artists, I myself play with composing music at home and if I were to release a track I would like to feel that my music is protected so that only I may change it or reproduce it in any way. I would still however want my listeners to be able to store it on any device, including a computer, to listen to at leisure. I mean that's what I made the music for right?
I'd be interested to hear from actual artists on this and see what they think of what the record companies are doing to their music.
Sony and other music publishers, and software publishers for that matter, or basically any IP(intellectual property) supplier, are completely entitled to try and stop illegal copyrighting practises but they must think them through and prove them in the real world first, just as all major software developers do now. You cannot just simply distribute software (in Sony's case by someone who didn't even know about driver coding, you can see on sysinternals website that there are links to initial queries by this programmer about how to do this.
Bottom line is we need to firm up these technologies and the accompanying legislation as this becomes a more and more real life problem. There are many things in the digital world that are now making huge in-roads into main stream commercial products and our lives.


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