The good news is that the only DRM or other copy control mechanisms that have been widely accepted by the market are ones that don't even make it hard to bypass. iTMS is the perfect example - the player has a _digital_ hole that allows you to create an audio CD that's faithful to the original song you purchased. Now, what you bought was already in a lossy format, and ripping it to a similarly heavily compressed format will cut the sound quality further... but that's true even if you bought it on a CD.

The bad news is that people are accepting stronger DRM on new media. E-books, software, streaming video, there's less resistance. Possibly because people don't see it as a right being taken away from them?

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