DRM for you and i

If you havn't yet heard, Steve Jobs the head of Apple inc wrote in an article that appeared on the apple.com website about the current state of affairs in the online music business and how drm (the thingy put on music files that makes it worthless by not letting you play it where and when you want to) is bad for the industry. The interesting part is what the RIAA responded with, which was just alot of crap about how they are the important ones because if we really tried (we as in the computer companies) we could accomplish so much even go as far as having software recognize music that is pirated and have it not be played by the music player. Completely forgetting that the consumer has the power. How can we go around this dilemma? Corporations are fucking us over with all this proprietary crap. if we can support an open format for everything... not just music but for programs we could advance the state of affairs by having an open market where the innovative survive and the dumb die.