My assumption is that DRM was originally created to stop people from copying commercial softwares. Therefore stuff you create in a certain filetype is locked do to the company owning the rights to that extension. jpeg mpeg mpeg2, now a days, you pay royalty fee or something in that matter. jpeg is starting to suffer the same fate but i cant remember where i last read up on this. I have over 1000 personal pictures scanned in jpeg and i wish not to spend 1000 dollars for a image viewing jpeg software. Even linux would suffer the same fate. for now, if you want to encode in winamp mp3, you need to pay up 15 dollars for it. sucks. I wonder why those idiots don't use lame. Just talking guys but DRM is a major reason why i did not jump into Tech, software developing to begin with.
For now, I just dable.