Or they could just scan the songs themselves. Why bother with hashing when you have full control? This is a red herring.

Since they have had the ability and incentive to stop music piracy that way for at least a decade, and haven't done it, that should tell you something.

ok but how do they know you haven't bought that content?

Gotta go deeper and scan the bank transactions going through your phone. Why not just watch your screen and build a model of everything you do. It's a slippery slope ... of extrapolation.

> Gotta go deeper and scan the bank transactions going through your phone.

Sight Piracy as the reason, but get better conversion tracking for those sweet Ad clicks. We all know which companies would be drooling at the prospects of this.

Sadly this isn't hypothetical, Card companies have colluded with the data hoarders in the past for this exact purpose.

> Why not just watch your screen and build a model of everything you do.

https://www.consumerreports.org/privacy/how-to-turn-off-smar...

This kind of reporting is of course standard practice in the banking industry and has been going on for 20+ years.

Well clearly the burden of proof now lies with you. Have fun with our fully automated appeal process. If you get over 10,000 retweets we may reconsider.

The idea is to force you to buy the same content in multiple platforms. Bought content would have DRM; anything stripped of DRM is presumably pirated content.

In the future, everything is streamed. You don't own the content.

...If people will want to pay for that model. Not everybody will - this is absolutely certain. So, there is still some space for physical media being around for the rest.

Are you sure? There are already music albums that you can't buy in stores.

The free market serves only the masses. Everybody else can only hope to buy what they want.

I am sure I will never, ever go streaming, if that means cultural consumption linked to my identity.

If there will be unavailable goods or services, I will be forced to do without.

Children being born now will come into a world with no concept of either privacy or ownership.

Children being born these days will probably have parents to teach them that, and will be exposed to past culture, unless civilization fully collapses, and will understand privacy and ownership naturally, as they do not need to see those concepts around to understand them and "want" them.

The presumption with that line of thought is that "people will WANT the album at all" and/or "WANT at any price". These are implicit assumptions you are failing to acknowledge/mention.

And they are NOT generally valid.

For example, I stopped listening to broadcast radio in the 1990s - I've never missed it and I've done without quite happily.

I stopped watch any of the mainstream TV networks in the 2000s - I've never missed it and I've done without quite happily.

I've never used a music streaming service to this day - I've never missed it and I've done without quite happily.

No one piece of media is SO VALUABLE that it's irreplaceable or necessary to have access to. NONE.

I'm not a slave to whatever emotional beast would DEMAND I live crappy music or music only available from streaming. It can always be substituted either with music from other sources or living without it entirely.

If Justine Bieber was wiped from existence, my life would not change one iota. Same goes for pretty much ALL other "artists" today - and that's made easier because most are pure garbage without any musical talent anyway. Want to put up barriers to entry preventing me from getting garbage? OK. Thanks, I guess?

It will turn out like the Saints football tickets - they can't even give them away.

https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2021/08/get-woke-go-broke-n...

Yes, there will be people who want the album. Or at least the song. For example, people who heard a song in a club and used a music fingerprinting service like Shazam to find it.

>And they are NOT generally valid.

you make this statement, but then you just have a bunch of examples where it is not specifically valid for you.

Audio Hijack to the rescue.

Or are the author/creator of that content!

As if they would care for such details.

authors/creators of content don't exist; content springs fully formed from centers of large corporations, especially if that corporation is named Disney.

DRM to the "rescue"

who says the government cannot come up with a twisted reasoning of mandatory compliance to serve the unique IP industry which is struggling in the face of harsh pandemic and more seriously the threat imposed by those egregious hackers and thiefs who steal and consume content without paying for it. How dare they! they are killing the entire artist community. or " in the face of unprecedented attacks on our domestic soil by foreign alien enemies, we are forced to implement a assailant monitoring programme which i assure you will not be used for any other purpose. the programme is going to be strictly for intended purposes only. That said, while partnering with the industry, we have realized the immense potential to build an inclusive and healthy competitive environment in the market and will help the industry leaders root out evil "