(Yosh, we're back to disagreeing - feels much more natural, doesn't it? )

Like LaughingMan said, there's two big problems with DRM:

1) It won't stop people from pirating, since most pirating groups tend to have workarounds for every new copy protection technology days before it's even released.

2) That means that the ONLY people DRM is a hindrance for are legit customers, who then revert to pirated goods because that way at least they will have a fully functional product instead of a DRM crippled one.

So is the current DRM really better than no DRM? I dare say no.

Know what's actually the best way to go for any company? Getting rid of copy protection altogether. Because those customers who don't have the honour to actually pay for something won't do so, anyway. And those who do at least would no longer be literally FORCED into pirating thanks to restricting DRMs.

It really does work without any copy protection whatsoever. There's this company I'm spending a fortune on each month who sell digital products online. Of course there are lots of torrents for their products around, but they still earn a fortune thanks to the honourable customers by far outweighing the loosers that don't want to pay for a top notch product.

But those wouldn't pay, anyway, while we on the other hand love the freedom to install products we paid good money for on whatever machine we're currently working on.

Sadly, very few companies seem to realise that all it takes to sell a product is a bit of trust towards their valid customers (and at the same time trust into their own products - that they are good enough for people to feel they are worth paying for).