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The problem here is that the best browsers currently are open source, or at least mostly so. Chrome via Chromium, Safari via Webkit, Firefox, etc. Open source DRM is fundamentally impossible for obvious reasons, so making DRM a part of the HTML spec basically means that no open source browser will be able to implement the spec completely.

I believe DRM can be used fairly and point to examples like Valve's Steam to show the good that can come when its done well, but I believe it needs to remain a separate thing from the open standards that have made the web what it is today.

edit: I guess your point is that the big media companies believe they MUST have DRM otherwise everything is over for them, but can you name a large-scale DRM system that hasn't been defeated yet? Is it really worth pushing a bundle of crap in to HTML which makes it partially incompatible with open development just to provide the media luddites with a few months at most of security before it's broken like all the others?

First the obvious one, what is your favorite NIN album/song/whatever?

Second, more geeky one, what gadgets have become indispensable to you when on the road over the years and why?

My first concert ever was LITS at the Q in Cleveland back in '08 and it was amazing. As a long time NIN fan I couldn't imagine a better first experience.

You could easily have both with official torrents, actually.

All you need to do is run your own tracker. Use web seeding to have the torrent fail back to the official mirrors if seeds are unavailable (less popular devices, brand new releases, etc.) and if a "bad" build needs to be removed just block the infohash at the tracker. Flag the torrent files as not allowing DHT or the like and you're set.

Boom, now you have stats and the ability to cut off distribution of particular files if required, while still retaining most of the advantages of torrents.

You know how you can stick your hand inside an oven where the air temperature is hundreds of degrees and not even lose any hair, but if you put it in a liquid or touched a solid object at the same temperature you'd be seriously injured?

Same basic principle, to a much more extreme level. The plasma is absurdly hot but has very little ability to transfer that heat to things around it due to the near vacuum.