One point I want to make about this whole DRM discussion is that we now have so many models for sharing digital media in a pro-business way. Netflix now has a "Family Streaming Plan" where multiple people can use one account simultaneously. Steam has its whole gifting service, where you can buy like 3 or 5 licenses for one game, and split them between your friends. Like Valve has the common sense to look at a multiplayer game and acknowledge that the more players they have the better.

So I think part of the reaction to Microsoft is not just the policy itself, but its the lack of these kinds of innovations that make DRM not seem so obtrusive. You know everyone loves Gabe Newell. But Phil Harrison looks like Lord Voldremort, talking about how he's going to cast a Horcrux on our foreheads through the Kinect if we're trying to watch a movie with too many people on our couch. He's like "I shalst grant you permissions for the games you buy, if you cooperate. Otherwise I will have Nagini eat your parents!"