Like everyone else with a brain, I'm left infuriated by the same old BS spoken with the same reasonable 'you have to understand' voice.

No, it still doesn't make any real world sense. I still do not accept that I am not allowed access to programming that I have already damned well paid for purely because I will not use Windows.

What I would really like a lot would be for someone - perhaps Highfield? - to attempt to explain to those very Rights Holders that they are actively encouraging less-than-legal filesharing by adamantly refusing to use an ounce of common sense. And as we all know by now, once a person gets into the habit of an easy download, it's very difficult to go back to the legal-but-pointlessly-frustrating model.

Not only is it a all too easy to crank up bittorrent or usenet, it makes a lot more sense to do so.

Besides which, if you can view it, you can record it. This fact alone renders DRM the biggest waste of time imaginable for a service that's supposed to be freely available anyway.

Let the monkeys dance. They may eventually trip over and wake up with some brain cells to rub together.