Well, here, in the US, the entertainment industry basically tells the government what to do--the most embarrassing example being a former senator hired to go to one of the AA groups, and then, when they were trying to pass SOPA, basically blatantly say, we bought you, stay bought. So, it probably won't change. It seems to only get worse--for example, Hulu could be watched by any browser that had flash, then they DRM'ed it and now again, one has to go through hoops (errm, Hulu hoops?) to watch it.
Those who make these decisions are so moronic that I simply have no idea what to say. As I see it (not an original thought, don't remember where I read it, but I think it's quite true) there are three broad groups--those who will pirate regardless--maybe they're young and think it's cool, maybe they have no money, whatever, those who will never pirate, and probably the vast majority, who would rather watch it legitimately, but will pirate if there's no other way, or if it's really a lot of trouble to get it legitimately. (Or who get fed up with, say, a DVD where you have to sit through the useless anti-piracy warning, another example of how corrupt the US government is, the ads, and so on.)
So, all these absolutely useless content protection schemes do is push paying customers to look for ways to get it illegally. I'm too old and stodgy to care very much, I just find it useful as an indicator of how corrupt a politician may be. For example, I thought one was relatively honest, then saw he was sponsoring a bill to put video pirates in jail, and thought, ah, another corrupt and ignorant one.
Anyway a nice illustration, I think I'll put together something like this myself.
