Bill G. gets down and dirty on convergence

After their big to-do on Tuesday, there can be no doubt that Microsoft has cast its lot with all that digital convergence/future of home entertainment stuff. In an interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Bill G. makes the usual noise about the wondrous world of interactivity this is all going to lead to, but he also revealed a few other interesting tidbits. The positive stuff is he understands that ideally the creators of programming will "[J]ust put their content on the Internet and then they have a direct relationship with the viewer". But the catch is that Microsoft is also committed to building as much copy-protection and DRM into Windows Media Center as it takes for content providers (read: big movie studios) to finally feel more comfortable putting their stuff online. Which is fine,
because the more DRM they put into their media, the faster it will be circumvented. Oops, did we say that?