LOL . Funny how many are blind and how few rights you have now compared to 50 years ago .
Fact is things are not going to get better for you or me . DRM is just the first step in taking over what you do with your property and what you buy with your hard earned cash . Take a good look around you and you will see I am right . This will only get worse once they have this what is stopping them from having all your computer information and every thing you do NOW is also seen by any one and every one . There is NO privacy at all . NONE !
while i agree with your premise, your conclusion is false.
simply because as i said, there is always a way around it.
proxy servers, firewalls, offline machines, different operating systems.
hackers, crackers, wetworkers, thieves. in a perfect world none of them would exist, but when as you said, we truly have no rights - SOME of their work can become necessary.
Here's another thought when it comes to music piracy
This does not good for the musician in general but I do believe it says something important to the musician.
If you see your music in torrents being seeded and leeched big time, you know you have made it big as a musician.
i posed a similar question to my good friend lemode.
basically, would you rather you had less people who appreciated your work? if that one pirate, or one hundred pirates, decided and got others to purchase, you then made money from piracy.
would you rather never have made that money, or would you rather those first fans pirated your work, albeit temporarily.