DRM: the insanity continues ...

Boing Boing:

"none of those slides says this: 'If you subtract value from your products by adding our crippleware, we might reward you by bankrupting you when the inevitable breach occurs.' It would also be nice to see this slide: 'All of the 'premium content' crippled with DRM can also be downloaded for free from the Internet without any of these locks."

The whole intellectual property/ digital rights management (DRM) thing is becoming farcical. The monumental stupidity of (Hollywood/RIAA/INTEL/M$FT) "the man" boggles my mind. What would I, the consumer, buy intentionally crippled software/hardware when the easy-to-use, fully copyable, it-just-works, versions are available for free via bittorrent? If you want to make a horserace out of this, at least let me buy an uncrippled version, geez...