Video cards don't need HDCP

Many people are upset at video card manufactures for not yet including support for HDCP, even in their top-of-the-line and very expensive products.
In the future, HDCP will be required in order to view HD content, and all the video components from the display to the original source will have to be compatible with it.
Returning to video cards, ATi has a surprising reason for the absence of HDCP support: it is currently useless, since no protected content is available yet.
However, the reason for not including it is not the cost of implementation or the licences, since it is $15,000 per year, plus a $.15 tax per product, which can be reduced to $.04.
We think that, even more than display manufacturers, video card manufacturers have very little concern about adding the support, as once HDCP content arrives, their customers will be forced to purchase new products in order to use the standard.
This is even better than the Y2k bug!