I'm trying to figure out how to balance assuming the best and treating every comment as if it's an individual argument, while also not being completely naive to the fact that a nontrivial number of the people making these arguments are very often blatantly pro-DRM and are asking me to just pretend that they're not. It's definitely not everyone, but...
What is does do, is afford the major players total control over which devices and individuals are allowed to access the web.