Hate to admit it, but XKCD is right on the money in today’s comic:

All to often it is a case where a company is telling you how you’re allow to use the products they sell. You see this with the media companies (music, Hollywood, etc), and even with the hardware companies (Apple, Microsoft, etc). If I buy a product, I should be free to use it any way I damn well please. I paid money for it, and if I want to tinker with it, as long as I’m not making a profit off of them, then what’s the issue?

For example, my iPhone. Apple says I can only run their software upon it, or software they approve of. Well, bugger them. I decided to jailbreak my iPhone so I could play with it and customise it how I wish. I paid for the damn thing, so I should be free to tinker with it as I please. I’m not making a profit off of it at all. So far, I just wanted to change the background to something a little more aesthetically pleasing to the eye than the standard boring black background. One of Apple’s slogans was “Think Different”… well, I’m seeing people with iPhones all over the place now, and I want mine to LOOK different (why this isn’t an option within the official iPhone OS is anyone’s guess). As for future changes, who knows? It’s not like I’m trying to hack it to make free calls or anything.

By forcing people to conform to some idiotic copyright rules by use of DRM, you’re not solving the problem, you’re encouraging people to find a way to circumvent the DRM itself. The average person won’t know how to do this, but you can bet that they have an uber-nerd one phone call away who’ll know how to do this.