Although I share your enthusiasm, I don't think closing the barn door after the horse left is going to help. Customers have to organize and demand an end to DRM by force of withholding money, clicks and eyeballs ...
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." - Frederick Douglass
I'm not sure what your analogy is supposed to express, but this isn't some ideological stand; it's a simple matter of increasing maintenance costs for DRM software.
- Makes archiving unnecessarily difficult/impossible.
- Micromanages legitimate use, including limiting legal
usages.
- Reduces or eliminates goodwill towards platforms, content distributors and content producers, e.g., it ain't cool.
- Reduces sales through introducing artificial barriers to social network effects, i.e., torrenting often increases sales and popularity through lower-barrier social network effects.
DRM-free fails if people don't pay for it, but this is rarely the case as the majority of people seek to be honest and support their favorite content producers to keep creating more.
However, if like the RIAA and MPAA going after every single dime like corporate justice warriors, people can and will crack the DRM and share content or simply look elsewhere.
"Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will." - Frederick Douglass