DarrkPhoenix: I must say, the sheer amount of mental acrobatics being performed here is quite impressive. It always amazes me the amount of time people will spend quibbling over definitions just to avoid discussing the actual concepts behind the words being tossed about.
While I suspect that was just an attempt to assert superiority over the "lesser" people and the like, that is actually the big problem with this.
How do you discuss the concepts and problems behind something you can't define?
Half the people here think DRM is just something that inconveniences you. Fancy that up however you like (restricts your rights, affects you after the initial purchase/download, etc), but that is what it boils down to.
Another half (the two halves are not mutually exclusive) feel that DRM is inherently an evil plan by the big mean companies to steal our monies.
And the third half are borderline anarchists :p
Oh, then there are the few people who just admit that DRM is a complete catchall, which then angers the other parties and leads to long discussions like this. If said few people were more intelligent, they would stop rubbing the vagueness of the term in other people's faces. But so be it.
Let's say we discuss the problems with Activation-Model Securom. We all agree that is problematic until we remember that you have the same thing with Steam (but with fewer activations and the like). And it stops being as much of a problem (even though having to activate on every install is a lot more annoying, at least as far as I am concerned).
So that basically leaves us with discussing the actual merits and problems of each DRM-model, which doesn't work, because people have their own personal hatreds based on things like regional restriction and the companies behind it. Then the pseudo-anarchists and the conspiracy theorists come to explain the "fact" that DRM is only an evil scheme by the Evil Corporations to screw the end user over (which, while plausible, is still only arguable :p).
Nah, the only way to ever have an "orderly" discussion on DRM that can actually be productive will be to either properly define DRM, or to make a new term that doesn't have such negative connotations.