"Simple observation of consumer behavior has shown over and over again that people simply don't care..." Depends on who's doing the research, doesn't it? Becau

"Simple observation of consumer behavior has shown over and over again that people simply don't care..." Depends on who's doing the research, doesn't it? Because my repeated observation for 25 years is that, when people become aware how they're being screwed by -some- technology (starting with C64 copy protection), they turn away from it. So the behavior you claim to observe only obtains so long as consumers can be kept ignorant about their options. You might hope for that, but once people discovered the flaws in Edison's phonographs and records, they moved on. And, oh yes, they will.