Imagine That: EA DRM Goes Haywire

So there have been some problems with EA's DRM for Dragon Age. Ars Technica has a good, angry summary of what has been happening:

Thanks to a combination of DRM idiocy and technical and communications failures on the part of EA and Bioware, I (along with thousands of fellow EA/Bioware customers) spent my free time this past weekend needlessly trapped in troubleshooting hell, in a vain attempt to get my single-player game to load.

I know I'm flogging an offline horse here, but these kinds of stories are just starting to make me miserable. DRM is clearly a waste of our time and publisher's money. I'm baffled as to why people should pour more resources into this, and still come up with half-arsed server-based solutions that require constant checks and are prone to failure. I know, I know. Empty ranting, pissing into the wind. But something has to change.