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And, like, Macrovision actually prevents anything nowadys? Also, concerning plugging the analog hole:

1. Buy camera.
2. Film stuff.
3. Copyrighted music starts playing somewhere near you (Maybe from speakers in a restaurant).
4. Your cameras sound goes blank. Yea rite.

Most consumers are going to put up with a lot of shit, but some stuff is just too intrusive.

Also, before audio/video copyright protection schemes that are so unrackable that no one can ever break them are developed, we'll probably all die in a nuclear war or something.

Software piracy: I guess at some point software piracy will return to beeing something only the 31337 h4x0rs do. Then again, the 31337 h4x0rs probably use mostly OSS, so they couldn't care less.