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Everyone ought to know by now that DRM is a shitty concept gone Satanically wrong.  The only people who believe in it are ill conceived corporate executives and lawyers thinking that they can continue reigning in control on people's pocket books for what really is fraud of extreme magnitude.  Oh, and all of the greedy software developers who decided to sell out and make a few quick bucks by attempting to convince these stupid execs that their protection schemes would have a true ROI.

That rant complete, I have to say that Yahoo's execs mentioned something that put a smile on my face.  TechCrunch used the best quote when they stated how one Yahoo exec told the music industry "inconvenience doesn't scale."

That is what DRM truly is: inconvenience for the consumer.

Sadly, DRM isn't about the quality of music, the artists' real rights to full earnings, the true protection of intellectual property, nor the rights of the consumer.  It's only about lawyers, executives and the middleman as well as a few leeches in between (that I missed in that statement).  DRM helps no one, at least not the ones that truly deserve help.  DRM is a fraud scheme to force consumers to pay extra to lower their inconvenience level.  So what the music and movie industry have done is made people's lives more miserable with their insecurity.

It's a shame to see society take several steps back towards the age of monarchs and fiefdoms because that's exactly what this version of corporate America has done for social engineering.  Or rather they have reversed years of democratic improvement as well as technological improvement just to secure a few more pennies in their burgeoning pockets.

Those extra pennies could've contributed to an investment in solar power for their production factories, technologies to aid deaf people improve their capabilities potentially to hear music, etc.  It's truly pathetic to see the industry move in this direction.

Of course, the executives, lawyers, middlemen and other leeches don't care at all.  As long as they can purchase another BMW or house in Malibu, that's all that matters to them.

Well, this year we saw SCO collapse and I'm certain that many of the executives are going to get nailed after the lawsuit payments start trickling in.  While the music and movie industries' lawsuits may immediately impact the lives of the innocent being threatened, the truth is that I think their demise will be slow and a million times more painful and humiliating than SCO's.

I'll be thoroughly entertained seeing an obese, homeless Paris Hilton dining from a trash can outside of Del Taco alongside her one time executive friends who would see a horrid reverse in fortunes once social media really take over.  Enjoy your French cuisine, Mercedes and other luxury, overpriced lifestyles while you can.