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In a similar vein, once you pirate something you also own it forever. Netflix is never gonna delete Bojack Horseman off my hard drive.
by ThrowawayTestr 4y ago
In a similar vein, once you pirate something you also own it forever. Netflix is never gonna delete Bojack Horseman off my hard drive.
- Eddy_Viscosity2 4y agoYou say 'never' but I see the capacity for companies to remotely delete things on users drives that feel like may be in copyright violation as a foregone conclusion at this point. It is an inevitability. Since both TVs and computers are usually internet enabled, you'd have to super careful to never expose that drive to the net. I mean who is going to stop them? Lawmakers? chuckle-snort. The supreme court? giggle.
- thatguy0900 4y agoYou would either download the content encrypted or use Linux, I suppose.
- derwiki 4y agoHow is Netflix getting root on my box?
- dylan604 4y agoYou'll give it to them when click the Accept button
- sdflhasjd 4y agoIn 2035, your hard drive will have firmware with built-in CSAM filtering, which - after a legal battle in the high court - will get hijacked for copyright enforcement.
- Karsteski 4y agoGuess I'll be relegated to living in a cabin in the woods if we ever get to that point...
- EvanAnderson 4y agoThat’s eerie. I say almost exactly the same thing. I don’t know if I feel fortunate to have lived thru the period of people having access to personal computers that they actually owned or sad because I will know the pain of having had it.
- Karsteski 4y agoYea I feel that. I honestly think that the only reason my goals aren't to just buy a piece of land in rural Canada and live life in peace is because it's not the lifestyle my girlfriend wants. That being said, we still want rural living, just not as extreme as I sometimes dream about
- BuyMyBitcoins 4y ago>” I'll be relegated to living in a cabin in the woods” Welcome to my Ted Talk…
- meindnoch 4y ago…and will pick up the hobby of making ingenous mail bombs?
- Karsteski 4y agoProbably not, although I did used to be a chemist...
- Sholmesy 4y agoIf you have the physical hardware, there will be people able to produce their own firmware that disables built in filtering, or at least, disables the internet connecting that reports said filtering. You'll have a server that is disconnected from the internet with all your DRM free content. They would have to outlaw personal computing, and not allow you to build your own servers with no firmware-enforced filtering, which given the current direction, is not particularly farfetched, but at that point battle is lost anyway and your DVD rips are the least of your problems.
- EvanAnderson 4y agoRoHS and lead-free solder insures that the relatively open hardware we have today won’t function in the future, post-personal computing being outlawed. I don’t think it’s a vast conspiracy, but rather a happy accident.
- kvetching 4y agoBut a strong solar flare might.
- saghm 4y agoThat's the other benefit of offline backups; you can have as many as you want. If a solar flare wipes out every hard drive I own simultaneously, I think I might have bigger problems than a lack of TV shows to watch.
- reureu 4y agoQuick plug for "Mr. Burns: a Post-Electric play", where an event wipes out the electric grid and people start trying to recreate an old Simpsons episode. There are multiple productions on YouTube, such as: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuL7EbjFBBw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vuL7EbjFBBw Description on wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Burns,_a_Post-Electric_Play https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mr._Burns,_a_Post-Electric_Pla...
- Freak_NL 4y agoThat sounds like the onset of a Cory Doctorow story. Armed autonomous Netflix' bots bearing down on your residence to physically delete your Bojack Horseman copies — all legalities taken care of by the newly amended copyright protection laws.
- 082349872349872 4y agoThe sequel to Fahrenheit 451: Oersted 5000.