I don't really think that we need to depend on the government to do anything other than stay out of the way. It will be the consumers and the merchants, such as sony connect and amazon who will push the publishers for drm free content. It was Apple who pushed the record companies into letting them remove the DRM, not the government. Any merchant worths worth his or her salt knows that you want to remove as many barriers to a customer buying your product as you possible can. For the most part, publishers don't sale to individual consumers, they sale to merchants who sale to consumers.
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