“Digital piracy may be our last archival defense against an intangible world of rented products, subject to change or vanish without our consent.”
Yes. 🏴☠️
Discussion
I sail the high seas regularly 🏴☠️
The secret edits are creepy and feel dystopian. Didn't John Deer have to reverse course on their plans for essentially "renting" their expensive tractors to farmers? They wanted service contracts and were selling high priced maintence manuals, but I think some of this was undone when the onboard computers were cracked and reverse engineered.
Yes, they do, and it's heating up.
This is how we end up "owning nothing". Even physical media is being neutered. This is crazy. They are selling the illusion of ownership.
I was alive in the 90s— all these products existed without the bs and their companies were super profitable, there’s zero excuse for these new reverse pirating/renting mechanisms
A nontrivial reason why I own physical books is they cannot be edited retroactively.