I'm here to learn, but I'll do that within the thread with my own questions. You seem to want to set the rules here, but I don't subscribe to that. You seem to spend an extraordinary amount of time posting and defending MQA. It seems to me that either you have allot of time to kill and little to do, or that your account is actually manned by MQA to post.
To me, it seems that MQA do want to control and dominate the audio markets with this technology. IMO that is "control and greed", especially when paying a Director £422k on losses of over £4m. If MQA succeeds, it will be the end users who ultimately pay those bills.
So, having learnt more about MQA, I now understand there is apparently no DRM within MQA. However, there are authentication markers.
The other bit I'm trying to get my head around is the MQA instructions decoding/rendering process. MQA allow that to be done integral within an MQA approved DAC. Why don't they produce a small box that does that between a streamer and DAC so consumers can use their own existing DACs? MQA would still be earning from the license fee and it would allow many more existing DAC users like myself to add MQA to their system instead of buying newer MQA approved DAC technology.