The DRM timebomb

[Skybird]

I decided to put this into Generla Topics, since it is not specifically about a technical probloem, but in essence is a powerpolitical issue affecting whole society.

https://boingboing.net/2016/09/19/hp...ebomb-pri.html

That's why EFF is suing the US government to invalidate section 1201 of the DMCA: because "owning property" means having the "sole and despotic dominion which one man claims and exercises over the external things of the world, in total exclusion of the right of any other individual in the universe" and if every software-enabled thing can be remote-controlled against your wishes and your interests, then we have abolished personal property altogether, in favor of a neo-feudal system of perpetual corporate ownership -- and because an age in which our computers hold our lives in their hands cannot be an age in which it is illegal to tell you whether your computer is working correctly, for obvious reasons.

Things become worse and worse in the digital world. Microsoft'S GWX war against users, or assaulting users to make them using Windows 10 anyone?

I do not own a smartphone, nor do I intend to get one. I have dramatically cut my dependency on Microsoft, and prepare to cut the remaining ties - gaming - as well, although that comes with some dear losses. But the more time passes by, the ore willing I am to take these losses. I just cant stand the foul smell in the air anymore.

I have even started to look for a used, good conserved mechanical typewriter, non-electric. Readiness is all.