DRM just short-changes those people who are otherwise happy to pay. The piracy doesn't go away, only the people who pay suffer from the restrictions.
Musicians should get real and start making low quality samples (say 96kbps encoding) of
their work easily available and use this to promote the sale of enhanced experiences of their work, i.e. concerts, CD/DVD/high quality MP3s, merchandise and also solicit fan
donations! If I really like an artist I don't have a problem with shelling out for the concert or lossless CD/MP3 audio.
A very interesting TED talk about this from a musician called Amanda Palmer:
http://video.ted.com/talk/podc...