UK government clueless about digital right management

A while back I signed an e-petition calling for DRM (digital rights management) to be banned from digital content.

The original e-petition and a response from our government is here.

One of the bits I'm struggling with is this:

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However, DRM does not only act as a policeman through technical protection measures, it also enables content companies to offer the consumer unprecedented choice in terms of how they consume content, and the corresponding price they wish to pay.

How does that work then? If you took two identical pieces of digital media, one with DRM and one without, this statement seems to imply that the one without DRM gives somehow less choice as to how it is used! There is some wriggling room for the government with the definition of the word 'unprecedented', but IMHO not enough to make such a blatantly incorrect statement. I think the word "choice" would be better replaced with the word "restriction".

It does rather sound as if the response has been written my the music industry, doesn't it? Or am I just too cynical?

Timothy Birt