I caught this story via RSS feed in my Windows Sidebar. When I opened the window to check out the story and scrolled to the bottom, what did I see? An ad by Carbonite sponsoring the RSS feed for Slashdot. Now that's ironic...

The average consumer purchasing music through iTunes just wants it to work on his/her ipod/iphone and doesn't care much beyond that. I would hypothesize that those who DO care about DRM know how to circumvent it anyway.