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Re:Globally, Almost Four Out of Ten Music Consumers Are Pirates by yahoo234 on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @07:56AM (#18183971)
Potentially, every MP3 or video software is infringing and can be sued.

I believe eventually this will happened, and you wont be able to market or even program a non-cloud monitored player.

This will be accompanied by ratcheting up of subscription cost.

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Re:Globally, Almost Four Out of Ten Music Consumers Are Pirates by enriquto on Wednesday October 10, 2018 @08:05AM (#18184028)
> you wont be able to market or even program a non-cloud monitored player.

This dystopian situation was exactly predicted by rms more than 20 years ago [1].

[1] https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.en.html

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