If they do mandate this crap, we can just boycott the new equipment and keep using the old. So new CDs won't play in CD drives. Fine, I just hook a CD player up to my computer and POOF, rip to MP3, no problem. There's nothing they can do to stop someone who's bound and determined.
It's just a visciuous cycle that won't stop until they stop trying to dictate what we can do with our own equipment.
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If they do mandate this crap, we can just boycott the new equipment and keep using the old. So new CDs won't play in CD drives. Fine, I just hook a CD player up to my computer and POOF, rip to MP3, no problem. There's nothing they can do to stop someone who's bound and determined. It's just a visciuous cycle that won't stop until they stop trying to dictate what we can do with our own equipment.