Finally, someone sees the daylight robbers for what they are and writes about it in a calm and coherent manner.
ars technica: Privately, Hollywood admits DRM isn’t about piracy
The basic point is that access control technologies are becoming more and more refined. To create new, desirable product markets (e.g., movies for portable digital devices), the studios have turned to DRM (and the law) to create the scarcity (illegality of ripping DVDs) needed to both create the need for it and sustain it. Rather than admit that this is what they’re doing, they trot out bogus studies claiming that this is all caused by piracy. It’s the classic nannying scheme: “Because some of you can’t be trusted, everyone has to be treated this way.” But everybody knows that this nanny is in it for her own interests.
… In a nutshell: DRM’s sole purpose is to maximize revenues by minimizing your rights so that they can sell them back to you.
Sounds about right.