Is DRM good or bad for consumers?

This short article gives a few viewpoints on that, basically the industry is claiming that DRM is good for consumers:

But Andrew Moss, senior director of technical policy at Microsoft Corp., said DRM will be important to consumers as more of them began to create their own digital content. DRM will allow them to control how their creations are used, he said.

"What [DRM] is intended to do is give people choices," he said.

That's a nice rewrite of "We want to get paid each time you want to do anything with any kind of music/video/text/whatever". In a few years you can expect to have to pay for many of the things you considered fair use.