Seth Johnson seth.johnson@realmeasures.dyndns.org wrote:
[...] The problem being how does one check whether a piece of hardware has DRM in it or in any way restricts one's freedoms -- preferably before buying it?
Ask the salesman? If they mislead, I believe you can return the equipment as "not fit for purpose" in the UK at least. For a different reason, I have done this with so-called "software modems" in the past.