It's still amazing to me that we want the economics of things in the virtual world to be just like the economics of things in the real world - and the lengths most businesses are willing to go to make this happen.
Of course, the real rents will flow to people who discover ways to exploit 'natural' virtual economics - because when they do, incumbents employing protection strategies will get killed.
Oh yeah - the EFF paper makes all the points you would expect: trusted computing is 'owned' by a single platform, so the platform owners can use it as a mechanism to gain unfair market advantage, and users don't have enough control.