[Sholmesy]

If you have the physical hardware, there will be people able to produce their own firmware that disables built in filtering, or at least, disables the internet connecting that reports said filtering. You'll have a server that is disconnected from the internet with all your DRM free content.

They would have to outlaw personal computing, and not allow you to build your own servers with no firmware-enforced filtering, which given the current direction, is not particularly farfetched, but at that point battle is lost anyway and your DVD rips are the least of your problems.

[EvanAnderson]

RoHS and lead-free solder insures that the relatively open hardware we have today won’t function in the future, post-personal computing being outlawed. I don’t think it’s a vast conspiracy, but rather a happy accident.