[HiTech RedNeck]

I think the idea is that new applications and their media will need the Fritz to work. It is basically a glorified dongle. Your old applications and media will continue to work, and you can disable the Fritz but at the cost of not being able to use the new stuff.

After all this song and dance, it will STILL be possible for a pirate to rip audio and video content, even if not perfectly, because they have to be turned into analog signals before you can hear and watch them.