My London council used to collect a small amount of household waste for free, every three months. Old fridges, mattresses, broken TVs, that kind of thing. From April they started to charge £30 for that service - fair enough you'd think, but I bet it costs them a whole lot more now to collect the...
I looked this up to get a flavour of what you're talking about https://www.cnet.com/news/hdcp-2-2-what-you-need-to-know/ and still not sure I understand it all. What's the blockage in your chain? Or rather, what 2.2 has been introduced into your setup that's causing the problem?