Yes, but I meant something like a real disaster like if Google stopped working, at all, all wiped, search algorithms, indexes, APIs, libraries, YouTube (what a

Yes, but I meant something like a real disaster like if Google stopped working, at all, all wiped, search algorithms, indexes, APIs, libraries, YouTube (what a sh*tshow that one would be, very large, very front facing). All because we allowed something this big to own so much of our life and still be private, hidden. Suddenly Europe doesn't have a web search engine (it was 90% of europeans who use Google, isn't it?). Suddenly websites all over the world stop working because they used some CDN. I was too young when people really talked and dreamt about everyone owning his own server, hostname. But I do believe in self-reliance, and DRMs are one of the blocks on the road to that goal. People shouldn't have to rely on Amazon's existence to be able to read the copy of Dickens they bought from Amazon. Because in 50 years, I'll still be alive, but there's a high chance Amazon won't, because most companies don't last 70 years. And as all things eventually end, we have to know and anticipate that fact. DRMs think about the very short term, while we should already be thinking about the long term.