Linux 4.17 To Likely Include Intel DRM Driver's HDCP Support

[Danny3]

I'm wondering...
I payed to own the computer.
I payed to own the tv.
I payed to own the HDMI cable between them.
I payed to own the movie on an optical disc.
Why am I not allowed to see what's going on between my devices that I own?
Who is HDCP protecting, me or the greedy companies?
I payed for everything in my home, what more do they want?

Now, as far as I understand, this HDCP encryption requires some software that will run on my CPU for the sole purpose of enabling HDCP, a feature that I don't need or want.
To my knowledge, the more software the CPU has to run, the more electrical energy the CPU will consume.
So, my main questions are:
Who will pay for the extra energy consumption?
Does Intel gives me the extra money that I need to pay the consumption for this extra "feature", that I don't need?
I don't want to hear the marketing bullshit that HDCP encryption is so efficient, that I don't even notice it.
I know that encryption and especially strong encryption can't be as light on the CPU as a "Hello world!" program.
Anyway, I hope that any DRM crap like this will not be accepted to the main Linux kernel.
I want my freedom!

[Creak]

I thought HDCP was, like, everywhere now (displays, GPU, etc...).
How come Linux works without this code already in the kernel?

[shmerl]

I hope Debian will ship without this garbage.

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Linux 4.17 To Likely Include Intel DRM Driver's HDCP Support

Back in November a Google developer proposed HDCP content protection support for the Intel Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) Linux driver that is based upon their code from Chrome OS / Chromium OS. It looks like that High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection support in the i915 DRM driver will come for Linux 4.17...

http://www.phoronix.com/scan.php?page=news_item&px=Linux-4.17-Intel-HDCP-Likely