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Re:Income inequality today may be higher today than in any o... by drivingmenuts on Saturday July 02, 2016 @11:01AM (#12022787)
> You can't, even though the majority of people who care one way or the other would like one.

The number of people who care is very small, though, which makes it economically inefficient to manufacture. While a machine could be manufactured with the feature as an add-on, that defeats the purpose of the feature in the first place.

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Re:Income inequality today may be higher today than in any o... by amalcon on Saturday July 02, 2016 @12:35PM (#12023032)
This would make sense if it were less expensive to manufacture a Blu-Ray player with HDCP than without, or if there were a significant number of consumers who explicitly prefer HDCP. Neither of these is true, so not using HDCP makes the device more valuable for the exact same cost (or maybe slightly less).
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