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> taking some random anecdote…as well as a bunch of assumptions to extrapolate

I don't think this is specific to Hacker News, or even a recent phenomenon…

I can confirm, I still have a DivX DVD player although I think I smoked around it a little too much, messed up the laser. I guess it is popular to bash on the place DMCA comes from, although the US has people from everywhere, so if some other place has good circumvention, it will reach it(US) sooner or later.

Yea I had similar experiences in the US with burning CDs and electronic stores helping me. Some even told me better and cheaper ways to do it.

If I went to Microcenter and wanted to build a plex server they would help me optimize it for sure.