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DRM is not bas in its essence, it is the way DRM behaves to implement it. As long as shoving a CD into your dive was ok, but now they phone home or do other nasty stuff. My opinion on DRM is simple, from a technical standpoint it is a waste of money. Every DRM was broken in one way or the other within 2 weeks. The Vista Premium Content Protection mechanism costs a shit load of money, money that could be put to better use.
Similar thing with TCPA only worse. Trusted computing is in its essence and basic idea, good because if properly implemented it can greatly increase your privacy. But that is not what MS has in store for us. They do not trust the user, that person that it was designed to protect. TC is considered a copy protection mechanism that is protected by copyright law. Think DMCA and similar. Even trying to mess (just trying to reverse enginiere) with the system gets you in jail.
It actually gets worse, they (MS, IBM and co) are trying to put a law into act (depends on your country) that TC is MANDATORY. That is just writing a "hello world" program is considered a breech of law. (Though there might be a exception for that.) This is the death of any innovation outside of big companies. Even if some free OS and programs get the license (not to think of the actual cost) they are binary frozen and require a new license for every release. If this gets implemented (in law) someone will have a money printing machine...
The FSF and FSFE are important bodies, because the create a counterweight against the corporate lobbies. They work has grately influence the EU Software Patent proceedings and the result is 3 failed attempts.