It appears worth it for the incumbent major labels, studios, etc because they aren’t thinking about the issue as rational business people. When they hear about copyright infringement they just “see red” and are making irrational decisions to fight against infringement. The fact that their solution is far worse than the problem, even to their own special interests, would require them to back up from their extreme emotions and think rationally.

For the average consumer they have no clue about these issues and how they impact them. They are still stuck in the world of incorrectly thinking that if your friends have Microsoft Office then you must also have a Microsoft setup in order to share documents with them. They buy computers as if they were toasters, not putting nearly the amount of thought into the more important software than the less relevant hardware. How much RAM is a bigger concern than what operating system.

This means “premium content” such as an HDDVD will be playable on a Linux machine with a simple software decoder. No muss, no fuss. Yet another reason to not be bothered with Vista-shit.