Re:I've never felt less in control of my own hardware
by maxxxxx on Friday February 16, 2018 @12:47PM
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I think we are going more and more into the direction of renting almost everything. If you use ebooks like Kindle you don't accumulate a book collection. Same for record collections. Devices become useless once the connected cloud service shuts down. Eventually we'll probably have cars that get obsoleted quickly. I bet the same will happen for household and other robots once they get more powerful. You will have to pay monthly rent to use them.
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Re:I've never felt less in control of my own hardware
by deckard1 on Friday February 16, 2018 @04:34PM
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https://www.wired.com/2015/04/dmca-ownership-john-deere/
Already happening. But everyone called RMS a kook. He looks funny. He talks funny. He's a socialist. He smells. And here we are. People are praising Apple--Apple--for letting people pay money for closed software that, at the very least, lives on their own device.
That's a low bar.
Re:I've never felt less in control of my own hardware
by rhizome on Friday February 16, 2018 @01:17PM
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I think we are going more and more into the direction of renting almost everything.
It sure makes law enforcement's job easier if more peoples' entire phones are subject to the Third Party Doctrine, rather than just what passes over the wire.