I see this situation as almost comical. It's like these companies and groups don't have a clue, this "protection" scheme that MS is implementing only hurts the law abiding citizens. What makes them think that those that pirate movies and music won't being using pirated copies of vista that have this "feature" stripped out. It seems that these groups, especially RIAA and MPAA, are so worried about protecting "their" products that they forget the people that they are selling them to. Maybe when the current youth generation is old enough to run these organizations things will change, but I really doubt they will until then.

-Dan