Reading Prof. Felten's post on "DRM in Retreat" earlier this year might have led one to believe that DRM was getting ready to take a long walk off a short pier wearing concrete shoes. However, the DRM town hall meeting hosted by the Federal Trade Commission this week in Seattle quickly disabused all in attendance of such a notion. While the anti-DRM pitchfork-and-torch set certainly made their voices heard, the repeated characterization by content providers of DRM as a necessary business model-enabler echoed through the courtroom nigh unchallenged.