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Fair enough. I appreciate hearing the issue from the perspective of a DRM vendor, operating under the constraints imposed by content providers.
I think the whole thing is a charade, however. DRM only provides the illusion of the kind of control publishers seek. Any system that provides perfect control makes the content unusable to consumers (or unpalatable). Give the consumers exactly what they want (no restrictions on MY copy of the book I just purchased) and the publisher has no protection.
I think recognition and compromise is needed from both sides. Publishers have to understand that it is impossible to generate digital content that can't be copied, and consumers need to understand that publishers need to impose some control over the content to prevent indiscriminate copying.
Encrypting the content per user (rather than device) seems a reasonable compromise, to me.
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