I get a good laugh every time I read somebody announcing he won't buy anything with hardware DRM support. I get a bigger laugh every time I read somebody who insists that if there's any of that darn DRM in there, it had better be possible to turn it off.

Here's hint #1: They don't care if you buy it. Everybody else will. Here's hint #2: It doesn't matter if you "turn it off". The damage is done if not everybody else turns theirs off too. If there's a population that hasn't turned it off (i.e. everybody but you), vendors will market to them stuff that only works if DRM isn't turned off.

I've been working on an essay, "How to hijack a Free Software project". The short summary is, all it takes is money, and not even very much.