Thoughts on a Darker Purpose of DRM

From Jon Johansen's blog So Sue Me:

AACS, like CSS, will be a success. Not at preventing piracy. That’s not the primary objective of any DRM system. Anyone who has read the CSS license agreement knows that the primary objective is to control the market for players. Don’t you just love when your DVD player tells you “This operation is prohibited” when you try to skip the intro?

AACS is the DRM associated with HD-DVD, and possibly Blu-Ray (not positive about that). Be worried, it's doubtful the MPAA will make the same mistake they did with CSS and make it easy to break. On the plus side, in the same post, Jon says:

6 years ago I didn’t think of registering decss.com. Not intending to make the same mistake twice, a while ago I registered deaacs.com.

Looking forward to being able to continue to backup movies and be able to skip commercials, etc., I wish you luck, Jon.

Raul