Getting rid of CD's?

[monteverdi]

I mostly listen to these shinny discs as I hate the process of ripping. I have some CDs which will not play on my CD transport but the rips play fine. I still keep these useless pieces of polycarbonate. But I am thinking to build a smaller home and not needing these shelves would be great.

How one can be forced to verify the possession of a CD (physical copy)? It would be close to impossible for any copyrights holder to prove that one does not own a physical copy (search warrant to find nothing)? Laws which are unenforceable are not very useful. Distributing digital copies is obviously a very different mater.

As streaming will be soon the main distribution mode the possession of physical discs or digital files stored on some HDD etc. will become pretty irrelevant for the majority of music consumers.