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I'm as much against DRM as any consumer who has ever been burned by it. But I don't see it going away any time soon. The alternative is just that much worse to content providers, with rare exception. I see a DRM arms-escalation continuing into our near future.
Perhaps the time will come when your content is no longer "yours" and, in the cloud, it is continually scanned to autheticate your right to access it under whatever identity structure is current (say passwords for you biometric Luddites, lol). Some form of that cloud-future is coming down the pipe. We can and will fight it but I expect us to lose. The benefits to content producers are too great. Not just authentication control but also revision control. Change the central file or program and it gets rolled out instantly and effortlessly because we're all using essentially "dumb" terminals, requiring a constant internet connection. Those require minimal local storage and processing power.
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