Building an uncrackable, foolproof and practical Digital Rights Management (DRM) system is an ongoing effort. Today’s DRM systems all aim to protect the content producer’s interests – they have little, if any, interest in protecting the rights of the consumers. To put it bluntly, the content producer produces the content (like a movie or a music file) and protects it using a DRM system. The consumer, who first pays for using the file, won’t be able to copy or share it.

This kind of scenario might seem unfair. However, no technology is automatically evil or bad. How the technology is used determines its merits. This also applies to DRM. For instance, if the producer/consumer relationships in DRM systems were reversed, an interesting “good” use for DRM technology could be envisioned.
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