Want to play your digital content through a digital connection? Pay up.

I
love new things, I especially love new digital things. I also have a long-established affinity for Creative products, ever since I spent hours configuring drivers in DOS to be able to hear Nazi soldiers shouting in Wolfenstein through my Soundblaster card. But the ugly trolls of DRM are threatening our relationship, by turning off the digital output on my soundcard when playing DVD content.

Their solution to this whole mess is to sell you another $99 box (the Home Theater DTS-610) 
that connects to your analog audio output, reencodes it to DTS and outputs it digitally. Voila, you just spent more money to get less of what you originally paid for. I'm not quite understanding the benefit of having my computer mix a digital signal, send it analog to this box and then send it digitally to the speakers. Of course this does mean all of my audio gets output in DTS, but my sound card should be able to do that. The explanation from the press release:

"Playing back DRM-protected content on a PC, such as purchased MP3 files and DVD audio disks, typically requires the PC's digital audio output connector be shut off in order to prevent the content from being copied. However, owners of the content who simply want to send the files to a multichannel receiver for enjoyment on a home theater system are prevented from doing so. Now with the Home Theater Connect DTS-610,
users are able to send music, a movie, or PC game content through their Sound Blaster® sound card's analog outputs and have it encoded in real time with DTS Interactive. The content is then digitally distributed to a home theater system for playback."

Maybe I'm just missing something, anyone want to explain why I shouldn't be completely ticked off by this "solution"?