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Originally Posted by pdurrant
Not so. Losing a warranty on a physical product is only a problem if the item breaks inside the warranty period. If your supplier a DRMed product ceases to support that DRM, you will lose access to that product when your currently authorised devices either break or need to be reinstalled. This is insurmountable. Well, unless you have sensibly removed the DRM first, of course. But that's a different discussion.
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Let's not forget that removing DRM is currently
illegal in the US (thank you, DMCA). So it's worse than what you stated. This scenario is
only surmountable if you're willing to become a felon by removing DRM.