The most influential pundit on the internet is Michael Arrington.
He is all about the money.
And when Michael Arrington says that DRM is dying, companies had better start looking for the next strategy of protecting their market share. Frustrating customers is the best way of losing them to some product without DRM.
“… the age of DRM is coming to an end. Startups that embrace the DRM world are going to have a very hard time finding success.”
I’ll go further.
I’m just about to switch from watching video on iTunes (free, proprietary software from Apple) to Democracy (free, non-proprietary, open source software). Apple’s huge lead in video distribution technology has already been surpassed by people who worked on Democracy for fun, part-time.
Long term I can’t see how commercial proprietary software can compete with open source. The inefficiencies inherent in any company stifle progress enough not to be able to stay ahead of an open source competitor which is available for FREE.
For another example, Microsoft Internet Explorer will continue to lose market share to open source Firefox in the browser market.
Even Google, who got big by copying principles of the open source movement, is doomed long-term.
Looking forward to see if I’m right.
Rick McCharles 
Yo Ricardo, forgive my ignorance, but if I want to DL Firefox, is it safe for Windows (the easily infectible system)?
Almost everyone agrees that Firefox is better AND safer.
The main reason being that FF has only 12.9 percent market share (July 2006) so hackers write viruses for Internet Explorer, the bigger target.