If we, The People, keep "blade sellers" from tying our wallets to them (mainly by cracking their DRM's and distributing content), Sony and other hardware providers will have their space. The very Sony Playstation1 survived because it was easily pirateable (I read somewhere else that there were more sales of PSX devices than PSX games). All kinds of MP3 players are sold which reproduce DRM-less contents because there is profit in them, since people download MP3 files all the same. Why should there be no space for pure hardware providers?
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