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I mean, what kind of fascist crap is that? If I buy a CD, I am going to use it in any device I have, and that should be my right as a consumer. With this law, you don't own the CD, you are renting it, and rental comes with rules. That is what DMR essentially is becoming in the modern world.
The funny thing is, these kinds of draconian laws will just push more people to download illegally.
This is also a very good point. Why would someone pay $.99 cents for a ridiculously DRM'd song when they could get an unencumbered version for free? If you buy a movie on DVD, there are usually 10 minutes of unskippable ****tastic previews that you have to sit through. If you torrent it, you can just cut right to the movie in VLC media player. I take DVDs that I own and rip them for myself just to avoid that bull****.
When the "finished product" that the studios are offering is actually less valuable than the product available elsewhere, you're going to see people who would normally be glad to buy the product legitimately turn to the black market instead.