DRM is like encryption, what one person can do, another can (and will) undo.
Controlling intellectual property rights became difficult with the printing press, and each new technology makes it harder to protect. Remember that an awful lot of IP rights are purchased at dirt prices by publishers.
Patents and copyrights exist, not to protect your IP rights, but to ensure that society as a whole gets access to them.
Protecting your rights is merely the carrot.
The essence is, if I can view your material, I can record it. If I can record it, I can republish it.
If more people thought about long-term profit instead of short term results, there'd be less IP theft. Much of which is by people who couldn't afford to buy at the market price anyway.
For programs, it'd be nice if they actually WORKED when you buy them!
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