DRM with HD-DVD and Vista

Ken, I think it is unfair to blame the pirates for the knee-jerk copy protection scheme of HD-DVD and Bluray.

What caused most people to 'stray' in the old days with DVDs, wasn't necessarily the need to pirate the discs' content, but (at least for me):

o circumvent the region lock (I want to *buy* DVDs when I'm abroad)

o be able to skip locked content (I don't want to watch a bunch of studio adverts before I get to the %"¤"! movie)

o ...and some people like to make backups of the DVDs their kids play with

So I do not hesitate a moment to put the big finger of blame on the industry. They could've shown a more user friendly face to begin with, and thus gained allies instead of enemies. Their choice. Their mistake. If I pirate a movie, I get what I want. If I buy the same movie, I get a lot of annoyances in addition to what I thought I was paying for. :( (BTW: I buy more movies than I have time to watch -- but I'm not a happy customer)