Change your business model, don't resort to DRM

ComputerWorld has an article about how Vista's DRM scheme is easily broken when using virtualization (you don't need to know what that term means to understand my rant). Because of this, Microsoft has made it illegal to use Vista in a virtualized setting.

DRM (Digital Rights Management; the attempt to prevent you from copying DVDs, CDs, music files, etc.) is just a bad attempt at restricting the rights of consumers. The biggest issue with DRM is that coders will get around it. Nothing is perfect in computers and someone will always find a way around DRM. So it is a losing battle that the content providers are fighting.

So instead, they should accept defeat, stop spending all of this money trying to protect a broken technology (mostly through lobbying Congress to make breaking DRM illegal or suing people), and try to find a different way to make money. With the amount of time and money wasted so far I suspect they could have figured something out by now. That way consumers would never feel mad that personal use of something they bought would be considered illegal and the content providers would lose less money to piracy.