The post is 30% hedges and the rest is a bit convoluted, but basically it comes to this:

DTO makes it hard to stop piracy since it’s a system open to abuse from unscrupulous viewers who can all too easily ruin the fun for everyone else. [..]

The answer is obvious for UK residents, but for the rest of you it’s this: BBC iPlayer. [..]

The iPlayer Desktop application uses on Adobe Air, and can run on Windows or a Mac. Long story short, it works, and fits all the criteria listed above apart from the payment system. So then, the technology exists for viewers to watch their favourite shows but it also has security features built in to allow the site’s webmasters to control who can access the content, and for how long.

You do not have to be a card-carrying member of EFF to see what kind of "defective by design" experience this proposal advocates, and it was soundly rejected by consumers every time it was tried before, from DivX on. Even Netflix did not do a lot to move the issue (although I think a number of unscurpulous and/or pioneering consumers use it; if I remember right, Nick Istre and Aziz Poohvalla among animebloggers do). But The Man keeps coming back to it, so in present the battle is being fought in standalone devices.

I may be not representative of the majority, but for me it's give me true DTO or give me death, as Patrick Henry said. Moreover, at least at first price is no object for me, within reason. $5 an episode? No problem, if the anime is good. Even $7 may be acceptable.