How much time will pass before hardware firms rally in lawsuit, and how long before antitrust investigations get underway? Will Creative, for example, stand by while anti-fair-use and anti-competitive measures arbitrarily erode the market for their Nomad MP3 player? Will manufacturers of high-end audio components do nothing when their customers can't play music CDs through separate CD transport and DAC units? For that matter, how could such a thing be stopped? As long as I have a standard CD player with a TOSLINK output, I'll always have access to a pure digital stream. Weather or not US law can actually prevent these "copy protection" schemes, the flood of litigation will most definitely ensue. And what about companies that have a vested interest in both hardware and media? Will Sony, for example, put out CDs that cannot be used on their own hardware?
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How much time will pass before hardware firms rally in lawsuit, and how long before antitrust investigations get underway? Will Creative, for example, stand by while anti-fair-use and anti-competitive measures arbitrarily erode the market for their Nomad MP3 player? Will manufacturers of high-end audio components do nothing when their customers can't play music CDs through separate CD transport and DAC units? For that matter, how could such a thing be stopped? As long as I have a standard CD player with a TOSLINK output, I'll always have access to a pure digital stream. Weather or not US law can actually prevent these "copy protection" schemes, the flood of litigation will most definitely ensue. And what about companies that have a vested interest in both hardware and media? Will Sony, for example, put out CDs that cannot be used on their own hardware?