Thumbs up.  Well said.  Agree with everything.

So in the end, this is somewhat reassuring, Apple has nothing against privacy, but rather against obviously illegal financial constructions.   But I agree fully with your DRM stance.  It is one reason that I don't buy Apple products (or others) that enforce this too much - even though on the lowest levels, even Intel itself enforces such things now, but at least, OEM can, or cannot, make use of it.  As far as this will remain possible, I will always try to buy stuff that has the least of "lock in" possible, even though for low level stuff, this starts to become unavoidable.