That -is- the fundamental assumption with DRM. You are a criminal, tried and convicted by the vendor of your device, and must be imprisoned appropriately. With DRM, the customer is the enemy and is treated accordingly.

The limits of what could possibly be considered acceptable were tested and met by Valve, who make a fairly valuable tradeoff. Everything else, especially that demanded by the media industries, is unacceptable.

Part of the reason I don't like Apple's locked down computing bent they seem to think is Right and Just with mobile computing is because they (and indeed many others, especially Motorola) see it as an opportunity to push us uppity consumers back into the bag via locked down devices they control well past the point of sale, and past the point where your contract would have expired.