DRM Goes From Soft Suck to Blow Hard Talks about Sony and Intel's new hardware DRM enforcement.

The purpose of technology is to make our lives better, to make the tasks that are tedious pass more quickly, the difficult tasks a little easier, and the beautiful experiences more vibrant and believable. If you stand back and look at the laylines of the tech world, you can see more than just the buzzwords of proprietary technology. You see convergence, interoperability, and ease-of-use as real-world desires of a tech-hungry populace. But digital rights management, whether its the software running your iPod or the chipset running your Windows media station, is a stumbling block that halts all the progress that technology has made to improve our experiences and breaks it up into little bits so that you pay more for less.