CD-Rs were more expensive than DVDRs because of RIAA lobbying to get a cut of every CDR sale since they were “only/mostly used for music piracy”. DVDRs did not have this tax on them.

Nah. The need to regularly change passwords is unnecessary. If you use a sufficiently long password, unique passwords for every site, and 2FA/MFA for “important” logins, then you’re good.

Businesses requiring their staff to regularly cycle passwords is outdated and makes their systems less resilient, since it opens more angles for social engineering attacks or password security carelessness.