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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 [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (2 children)

i dont think itll be possible to enforce esp in the globalised world.

like piracy is supposed to be illegal but even in the west you can do it perfectly fine with a VPN/Seedbox. Outside west, you can do it without any protection.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

FWIW the Canadian supreme court made piracy laws unenforceable on purpose, so you also don't need a VPN in Canada.

[–] a_statistician 4 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I've never used vpn even in the US. Private trackers and encryption have been enough for me. Also, it seems like my ISP doesn't care. Some basic caution is sufficient to avoid consequences.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think a lot of it depends on your ISP. Some of them are nosier than others.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I think that ISPs care insofar as they don't want to piss off copyright holders which are enormous companies. My last 3 ISPs have messaged me about brief periods I was accidentally off VPN while downloading TV shows. I think they just wanted to stay on HBO's (and other huge media companies') good side.