What Stallman writes agains is TCPA, which is quite different from DRM. Though there is one small paragraph about DRM, it should be noted that DRM and TCPA or whatever they're calling it now are completely different. You can have DRM without TCPA technology or a fritz chip. Turns out most PCs people have today already have DRM on them. Windows comes with DRM support in their media player version 7.1 and up. TCPA takes it a giant leap farther by addain a hardware component, and making the same DRM system appliable for just about information your PC has. And it makes it so that your computer will chech to see if your breaking copyright whenever it wants and will possibly not even boot if it thinks you are. Its truely evil. I could go on about what it will do, but enough has already been written about that. But the DRM available today is a far cry from that. All it does is accepts media files that have been encrypted and unencrypts them according to certain rules set by the producer. This is embedded into a couple of applications, and those applications will not have any affect on other pplications, unlike TCPA. The DRM using application of today could care less about anything else anything is doing, it just deals with the encrypted files. It will still allow file sharing in any way. TCPA would shut you down if it dosn't like somthing your doing...kinda like M$ product activation. DRM however is all about user choice. If someone dosn't want to purchase a licenced media file, they can simply choose to not download it, or delete it if they already have it. If they don't think they will ever want to use one, they can quickly and easily delete the DRM using application. Nothing is being forced upon the user, and the user is not being deprived of anything. Again, nothing is done to stop file sharing with current DRM. There is the thing about the DRM application following a set of rules put out by the content provider, and not listening to the user. But if this is kept to one application, and the user is fully aware of what is going on, I don't see it as an infringement on the user's rights.