>> I can understand in the past when there was no internet and people passed
>> around videos to copy at home, and some mild DRM would stop most people
>> being able to copy the tape.  But today there are *always* huge numbers 
>> of
>> very skilled people willing to put in the time and effort to crack any 
>> new
>> DRM system and share their findings online.  Once one person has done 
>> that
>> everyone else can get the copy with almost no hassle.
>
>  That's where internet censorship steps into play.
>
>  (Internet censorship is starting to slowly get widespread. It starts
> "innocently" by banning child porn and perhaps racism. But you'll see that
> soon it will be used to try to stop music piracy as well.)

Well given that piracy is illegal, it seems a legitimate target for the 
censors, but as with all these sort of schemes there will always be a way 
around them and new ways of pirating software will pop up.  Just look what 
happened with Napster when it was shut down, up popped bitTorrent.  If 
suddenly they start censoring all sites that link to torrents, then I'm 100% 
sure some new method will be invented that makes it impossible to censor 
using the existing scheme.  By the time a new scheme is dreamt up to fight 
the pirates, another system will be in place, it's endless.

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