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Originally Posted by GreenMonkey
Instead, you drive your car to a store where they will convert it to some DRM'd files that you can play on some devices. While insisting if you use software for the same task, it's illegal. That's brilliantly moronic.
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Its not moronic, its surprisingly capitalistic. After all, we're in a system where the only thing that matters is the C-level executives' greed, and how many politicians they can buy off to keep the masses down and ignorant.
Anyway, what they're doing is like that car company (Scion?) that put tamper sensors in their cars' engines so any "unauthorized" activity under the hood would make the car unable to start. Naturally, unauthorized activities include changing the oil and replacing the battery and plug wires- which are all things you're normally able to do in your driveway. Or how Windows 8 is likely to be non user serviceable; to install updates, the Check Computer light comes on and you have to pay $100 to Geek Squad for an OS ROM flash.