When playing a CD becomes a privilege, not a right

[Miagi]

Meh, just don't pirate and you'll have nothing to worry about.

This has nothing to do with pirating, this has to do with legally using a music CD you bought legally down in walmart or where ever, in your legally bought mac (or other computer brand) with its legal to use CD player.

Most of the DRM out there makes a macs CD drive freak out and locks the system. It won't play, it won't eject, there is no eject button. I'm not sure how people get it out but I do know the average user can't do that.

I don't know if you play music CDs in your computers CD drive or not. I do sometimes as I don't have any music only CD players any more. My last one that I had broke, the power button on the box broke and I can't fix it.. If they came out with DRM on a CD that I bought that basically screwed up my computer CD player to play music I legally bought, or if people want to argue it, music that I legally bought the right to listen to anytime I want on any legal piece of equipment that will play it then they are the ones in the wrong.

Its the exact same thing they are doing with the region coding really. They are telling people that they are not allowed to play a DVD that they legally bought just because it came from some other region in the world. They tell people that they also have to buy a new DVD player from that region. They are not allowed to buy a region free dvd player because they are suppose to be illegal (why I don't know, I also don't know why they bother with the region coding either). Its also illegal for people to use a region free program on their computers DVD player also. Again why shoud I have to buy a whole new DVD player to play a DVD I legally bought from somewhere else on the planet when I already legally own a DVD player?

It does have everything to do with pirating as this is why there is DRM :P.

I'm saying if you have a legally purchased CD, then you have nothing to worry about. If the CD doesn't play then there's a flaw in the system in which they will just have to fix it. Usually how alpha/beta stuff works, hell even with released versions.

I doubt they will release anything that will cripple users into not being able to play cd's they purchased.
Otherwise their product will not be used and their sales will go to hell.

With that said I think my comment is justified.

Region encoding is for when they release a movie earlier in lets say the UK, they don't want people getting pirated copies of the UK movie in the US..

This kinda reminded me of hardware locks.:P
http://www.wyse.co.in/hardware-lock-for-computers.html