Or, you know, how the technology actually works: two different lasers and crystallization states.

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DVD players also didn't have a great key revocation and forced field updates of keys and software and such. Blu Ray did, and was somewhat more effective. I also imagine console manufacturers have far more control over the supply chain at large.

Consoles after the original Xbox (which had an epic piracy ecosystem) all had online integration. The Xbox 360 had a massive piracy scene, but it was 100% offline only. The Xbox One has had no such breaches that I am aware of.

RE: BOM - famously, with many of these examples, certain specific disc drives or mainboards were far more compromised than others.

> That was literally Nazi Germany's strategy for defeating Britain.

And this strategy was enormously effective. Absent U.S. intervention, Europe was fucked.

> The Allies just made ships faster than they could be sunk.

Not "the Allies" - just one Ally, separated by an entire ocean. No such separation exists today.

> Today the US has 55 fast attack submarines, each of which can carry about 50 torpedos at a time. So with 100% of your subs deployed you can sink maybe 250 ships

We had torpedo bombers in 1940, as well, submarines aren't the only ASW mechanism that exists. How many sunken ships in each port will bring them to a grinding halt? Are they magically going to tug millions of tons of steel out of these harbors?

> China produces 15 ships per day

When their shipbuilding operations aren't strategically bombed into oblivion, sure.

> it can import food from its neighbors by land connections

Now it's a World War - why would this be allowed?

> grows 700 million tons of grain per year

With several hundred million of those tons of grain (along with vast amounts of other relevant food calories - livestock, etc.) being grown in the Yangtze basin, courtesy of the fact that the Three Gorges Dam is allowed to exist. Why would the U.S. allow that dam to remain intact? This one structure is a cheat code: knock out 50% of enemy food production, displace or kill hundreds of millions of people creating a mass humanitarian crisis and subsequent Cultural Revolution, and hobble huge amounts of industrial production. Short of theoretical attacks like EMP, no such non-WMD single-point-of-failure exists anywhere in the United States.

Nuclear response is truly the only thing keeping the peace.

Can you articulate why you think this ban impacted anything and what you think the ban applies to?