<i>&gt; The problem is fundamentally that &quot;encrypted tamper-proof streaming&quot; is not possible</i><p>In an absolute sense maybe not, but you can have decent approximations. As OP points out, music ended up being ok with watermarking. Hollywood might be ok with something like hardware tokens (which imho would be superior to &quot;just download and execute this blob and shut up&quot;).<p><i>&gt; There is no risk to money or jobs.</i><p>If that was the case, we wouldn&#x27;t be hearing musicians crying foul about Spotify every other day.<p><i>&gt; Eliminating DRM would reduce piracy by improving the experience of legitimate purchasers</i><p>At current prices, that&#x27;s unlikely. The experience is not terrible with current players either; what drives privacy at this point is mostly price. Hollywood doesn&#x27;t want to give up margins that are unrealistic in the digital age, which is why they fixate on DRM.<p><i>&gt; When you encounter someone [...] You teach them that it isn&#x27;t possible</i><p>There is teaching and there is shaming. Shouting at them that they are morally-corrupt buffoons is not &quot;teaching&quot;.