And it's far from a foregone conclusion that what you call "their right" is real - I don't believe I have a right to stop you from copying bytes on your device. That's insane.

And yes, I'm sure that the top .01% of pop musicians for whom the system is working well will hang on, and many more hoping to hit whatever lottery they've hit.

But as I pointed out above, some genres which are experiencing thunderous revivals right now are embracing DRM-free very hard, and even CC as well.

As John Perry Barlow said about his band, The Grateful Dead, when he found himself facing down record labels and movie studios as the only person on the stage who was actually in a band:

"We gave away our so-called intellectual property and became the most popular band performing band in the United States. and we're making one hell of a lot of money giving it away. It was not required that we be absolutely firm in our hold on this material because we recognize something important which is that in an information economy the normal sense of an economy based on scarcity is turned on its head. Value in an information economy is based on familiarity and attention. These are very different principles and and trying to optimize towards scarcity as you are by all of your methods is not going to be in the benefit of creation."