[mogui]

I can understand that DRM is not popular. But from an author's point of view, releasing months of hard creative work into the hackey-crackey universe isn't too interesting either. What to do?

You can take any combination of the following positions:
1. I (love/hate/am indifferent to) DRM.
2. I think DRM has a use somewhere/DRM is as useless as **** on a *******.
3. I like entertaining new ideas about this issue/I just want to shoot you!
4. I want to play with these ideas/I couldn't possibly care any less.

Any combination of results is a respectable position as far as this forum is concerned. Writing here and reading your comments is exciting to me because we can share ideas (many excellent ones) from all over the world. Heck, that is even better than the coffee house at my old alma mater.

I don't take a hard position on any of this. I like to play with ideas and enjoy the challenge of other minds. I try to offer substantiation where I am able in the form of links and visuals. I am not going to drop everything and launch into a development project over DRMp2p (unless somebody drops a grunch of money on me), because I am basically retired. If someone sees an opportunity here, they are welcome to it. To me, this is merely an exploration of what is possible.

I hope we can all enjoy the thought experiments here. If you think of a way to make something work better, jump in! The example of open-source shows us that many minds are far better than one alone. Synergy is the engine of evolution.