Barton, Bruce. “The tension between DRM and academic publishing.” Groklaw, February 5, 2006.

Summary: In imposing digital-restrictions management on their publications, university presses are allowing the business model under which they are being forced to operate to interfere with the mission of disseminating scholarship, which is their ultimate reason for existing. In an era in which the cost of publishing scholarly work is shrinking relative to the cost of creating it, this model is absurd, particularly when the libraries that have to pay the artificially inflated costs of DRM-protected works are often the same institutions as the publishers imposing them. But the inflexibility of university budgets makes it unlikely that change will come from the presses or the libraries themselves:

I think that it is more likely that we will see a new generation of scholars organizing peer review and publication amongst themselves and deciding for their peers that this counts towards tenure and promotion. And they will teach their graduate students where to look for the best scholarship (as their teachers taught them).