From Security Quotes of the Week, in last week's Linux Weekly News:

[ ... ] As Jay Freeman put it, using DRM* creates a new law called "Felony Contempt of Business Model." It's a law that has never been passed by any legislature, but is nevertheless enforceable.

In the 25 years I've been fighting anticircumvention laws, I've spoken to many government officials from all over the world about the opportunity that repealing their anticircumvention laws represents. [ ... ]

But every time I pitched this, I got the same answer: "The US Trade Representative forced us to pass this law, and threatened us with tariffs if we didn't pass it." Happy Liberation Day, people – every country in the world is now liberated from the only reason to keep this stupid-ass law on their books.

    Cory Doctorow

See original for (multiple) embedded links, including to arguments that if it really were an unbreakable lock, then those using DRM to shackle their users wouldn't need to drown those trying to break it in a tsunami of lawyers.

* Digital Rights Restrictions Management.