Agreed. When gasoline gets expensive enough American suddenly find common sense. Personally I think this is another major turning point for renewable energy.
We can still.do.everything we did back then, and more. People just use corpocrap. A modern smartphone is an excellent mp3 player. So much storage, FLAC if you want, etc. And that's ignoring streaming from your desktop at home with tailscale and navidrome
Hardware that can be manufactured on larger nodes can't really be stopped, and the (black) market for both old and new free hardware will be big, considering all the things that will inevitably be banned. As always, don't comply in advance
The fact that there will be a signal implying a user is an adult will give all sorts of bad actors plausible deniability, perhaps even legal protection, for exploiting children, who will of course be bypassing it
RIAA math