DRM never really works.<p>The best implemented DRM makes it hardly any more inconvenient for people to use it, and people accept it most of the time, Steam for example. It always puts some people off, who end up pirating it when they wouldn't otherwise have, though.<p>Even the best DRM is always cracked by those that want to. There is no DRM system that has ever been created that will not be defeated, because it is trying to achieve the impossible. You have to give legal consumers access to the content to consume it, so they always have access to copy it. It will never work. If DRM didn't exist, piracy would be a lot less common.<p>Most people stopped pirating music when it became easily available without DRM.<p>Ultimately, all DRM gets cracked, and this is the only real response to it.<p>Annoyingly, DRM only doesn't hit sales harder because it is defeated. If it was impossible to defeat a particular piece of DRM, it would harm sales of content using it much more, but the harm to the content sellers is limited by the fact that it is always cracked early on and made available to consumers they have cut off. For example, I have a Netflix subscription, which I use in an otherwise open source browser, using the widevine plugin ripped out of Chrome. If this wasn't relatively easy, I would just not use Netflix. Netflix is only getting money from me because the DRM they use is easy to defeat illegally. If the DRM worked, I'd stop paying for Netflix, because I wouldn't be able to use it and it'd be much easier to watch the same content by downloading it from Usenet.