Make Money Selling Your Diablo 3 loot?

Well, word of the digital street is that Diablo III will feature a sort of auction house.  Not that big of a deal right? Hold on tight, what if those auction houses provided a means for your to sell your items (crafted or looted) for real world money?  In other words, hock your high level loot for cash.

Isn't this the type of thing Blizzard has been fighting for years within WoW?  People selling items/gold and in some cases the game accounts for real world cash via eBay and forum meetups?  So why are they embracing the activity now?  Well, it looks as though Blizzard will charge a fee for cash transactions and will process via a third party to handle to transactions.

Among other Diablo III knews, Blizzard has confirmed that players will have to run an active internet connection while playing the game (when it's finally released).  This is a form of DRM; which as we know, DRM actually hurts the people who spend their hard earned cash and usually doesn't even affect pirates who can find ways to bypass it in the end anyways.  So as hot as Diablo III is, Blizzard better be careful not to ward off any long time fans.