Lie Down with Fleas? He Wants to Run the Flea Circus

Boing Boing is critical of Microsoft's involvement in Digital Rights Management:

Gates has lain down with dogs and now he's waking up with fleas. Inviting the entertainment industry to design Windows for him was a move of such breathtaking commercial stupidity that it's hard to credit. Where's that monopolist swagger when we need it?

I suspect Gates is relying on the impossibility of effective DRM. If every system is necessarily flawed, he can look forward to selling an endless series of upgrades.