That's my point - I don't think geeks alone have enough influence. Right now those seriously affected will be early adopters - people with in car MP3 CD players, MP3 portables, people who use their PC or DVD player to play or rip audio CD's and so forth. That's quite a lot of people, but I doubt it's a significant dent in total consumer CD sales.

Furthermore, if all CD's are protected, it will be the consumer electronics manuacturers that will be seen to produce "incompatible" CD players, even though the exact opposite is really the case.

Rob