In her article entitled Windows Vista DRM, KateG wrote:
>>The most insidious of the problems that user's have reason to make a fuss about is the system monitoring and it's potential consequences. The system monitors all of your activity some of the triggers that make your computer think that you are trying to copy some protected media then your system will take steps to stop you from doing so. These steps may be as simple as slowing down your system or even locking you out.<<
This is incorrect. DRM will not impact the performance of your PC; it will not stop you from accessing your PC; it will not restrict your fair use of non-DRM'd content; it will not stop you from accessing non-DRM'd content and you cannot catch cooties from DRM. In fact, I suspect that many people will probably not even know about the DRM technologies included in Vista because, for the most part, the processes are completely transparent to the end user.
I'll makes no comment in relation to the merits of DRM, but the fact is that for the vast majority of Vista users, it's simply a non-issue. Despite frequent scaremongering and FUD.