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Will Corpos try to force all computing on the to cloud and make privately owned local storage illegal? (hexbear.net)

submitted 1 year ago by Frank@hexbear.net to c/technology@lemmy.ml

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Seems like the next logical step. Most big games are always-online Games as a Service where your local storage is useless if the company server doesn't handshake. A lot of business and productivity software already requires subscriptions and is partially online. Every single fucking company wants to have an app on your phone so they can watch you in the bathroom. And there's talk that MSFT might start moving Windows off the PC entirely and in to the cloud.

I figure at some point it's in the shareholder's best interests to prohibit users from actually storing anything locally. Storage is really just stolen subscription revenue, when you think about it. Every time a user accesses something on a local drive they're stealing the chance for you to extort them in to paying a subscription fee.

What do think, too distopian? Back when tapes, CDs, MiniDiscs, all the old generations of data storage that you could write to at home were first circulating the media industries tried real, real hard to make them illegal to privately own. We've been fighting an escalating battle against digital (and analog I guess) IP regimes ever since then. Streaming has pretty much killed physical media afaik. I have no idea if blu-rays or DVDs are still printed for sale.

Idk, just a thought. Let me know what you think.

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[–] Frank@hexbear.net 7 points 1 year ago

Gimme a sec I'll see if I can hunt down an article.

Okay here are some start points

https://techcrunch.com/2013/12/27/how-the-content-industry-almost-killed-blockbuster-and-netflix/ - Broad overview

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Corp._of_America_v._Universal_City_Studios,_Inc. - Here's the wiki on a really critical case that basically decided the future of media

I love that Fred Mother-Fucking Rodgers, ie Mr. Rogers, ie "I fought the Klan and I won" Fred Rogers, had a critical role testifying in front of the supreme court in favor of allowing people to record things at home for later viewing. Such an incredible man. |

If you're not familiar with it check out the Digital Millenium Copyright Act, probably one of the most destructive censorship regimes in terms of sheer scope in human history

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act

Another one to check out if you weren't around for it, the Sony BMG Rootkit Scandal back in ought-5.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_BMG_copy_protection_rootkit_scandal

Is this a serious take? It's a 5-second search on Google or any large store.

I just don't have any installed physical media drives anymore. Haven't for years, so I haven't bothered to look.