Re:AV1 and the Video Wars of 2027
by yuhong on Sunday August 19, 2018 @06:31PM
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The entire debt-based economy is based on extracting more dollars from "consumers". This is also part of the reason for DRM for example.
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It's the As-A-Service model - the idea that software not only shouldn't be free, but also shouldn't even by run by the client. It's a pretty fundamental renegotiation of the terms of ownership.
On better days I see it as a last gasp by entrenched interests to re-establish the landlordism of old now that compilers are free.