We Own Nothing In The Digital Age - We're Letting It Happen
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- "We will own nothing and be happy"... We might own nothing but I for sure won't be happy about it.
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I went over this for ten years. I'm somewhat blackpilled now. I'm almost certain most people don't care.
Even if the consumers care, companies most definitely won't. Unless everyone stops using their services/buying their products or a law is made against their anticonsumer practices, they won't give a damn no matter how hard you beg them.
People don't seem to care about much nowadays. I'm 18 and it seems hardly anyone actually gives a shit about anything and it sucks.
People do care, they care alot but that's relative to how much they normally care about stuff, which is basically 0 and 0 times 100 is still zero.
It's sorta like the people who resonate with a political candidate but don't go out to vote. Idk what's wrong with people but it's gonna catch up to em real friggin soon
Your work hasn't been fruitless Louis. Thanks mostly to your efforts I've been learning to repair rather than replace my gadgets, and shift to own rather than subscribe, by buying Blu rays and putting them on my Plex server for example
We care. But the corporation are operating like cartels ... They have all implemented the same policies, so there is hardly any options for opting out.
The artist that use clip studio fought back when clip studio was going to switch to subscription service for the perpetual license users. A butch of artist where going to switch to free art programs instead.
BMW charging a subscription for heated seats is absolutely awful
Porsche do the same for features like unlocking car when fob is sensed on the Taycan, The MacMaster had features turned off at last software upgrade as he hadn't paid extra for that feature...
Really?🤔
Toyota does something where they charge you a subscription to unlock and lock your car from their app for newer vehicles.
Wait until you see a subscription for brakes.
Awful is when they turn them on by default and charge you to turn them off.
I hope open source alternatives get more exposure. This will help us in a few of these problems.
Was just watching a video on that right before finding this video... MiSTer FPGA FTW! 🕹️ 🎮
Open-source is thankfully alive and well. As for games, I still purchase them but just indie games that don’t need to be opened with a service.
piracy!!🏴☠️
Nope, things go down hill when they get popular.
Better Free Software
This is one business practice I will despise for the rest of my life. I don't use Adobe software for this exact reason. Now MAGIX is going down the same path. Guess I'll be sticking with Vegas Pro 14.
We really need more people to be mindful of this issue. Speak with your wallet. If you're looking at a new car that charges you extra to activate the heated steering wheel, avoid it and buy something else. Do it while you still can.
I actually started using Affinity
hi sal
@@TheRunner72 I'm also using Affinity. It's really useful and I don't have to pay that monthly fee.
Same, I use a free, open source software to making content and videos. I use Kdenlive as a video editor and GIMP as a photo editor, although the features are not as much as the paid Adobe software subscription
69th like also hi sal
This really hits for me because of my parents who don't understand what's happening and need my help with technology. I once went to their printer and realized they had signed up for an ink replacement subscription. They forgot to pay it. This missed payment showed up as an ERROR ON THE PRINTER, and ERRORS STOPPED THE PRINTING QUEUE UNTIL THEY WERE RESOLVED. Their printer effectively shut down on them until they paid an optional subscription to have ink sent to them when it got low, and to fix the error I had to change their plan.
It's like this with so many things that it's crippled my parents productivity. There are so many times when I'm saying "it wants you to pay a subscription to do that." "They want a subscription now so you can't do that anymore." "Don't use cloud services you won't understand them and I will be helping you find your own files for the rest of your life."
LeSean , Chiiiiile, i forgot that the printers also got into the price gouging bullying game too. Lord have mercy on us . for real. and i bet they can't even use another ink because they are tied to the one the brand supplies
What brand of printer was it?
@@HenryBloggit most likely epson lol
Printers are big scammers. Mine has 4 ink slots for black, blue, red, yellow. If one color runs out, i cannot print anything, not even with the other colors
That's the creepiest real life technology story I've heard
My Father has been telling me this since the early days of DVD's. "If it's digital, they can control it, and shut it down, and eventually charge you a maintenance fee." It didn't happen on DVDs, but it's happened on streaming & everything else.
Lol
You don't own those DVDs dumbass
They could withdraw the license to view them at any time and they would become coasters
A good example of this are the episodes of South Park that feature depictions of Mohammed. You can't even stream those episodes any more. I'm glad I bought my DVDs.
You should look up this thing called the world economic forum. Their slogan is "You will own nothing and you will be happy" this channel called a time for judgment makes a bunch of videos on them
He was right
No-one wants to know about the downside of “convenience”.
Year's ago I read a book arguing that fascism would be sold as “more convenient” and people would buy into it because people are lazy and dumb and short-sighted.
I thought it was far-fetched at the time, but now I think it was onto something.
certain media is uneffected. i can still download ANY song on the internet and a giant majority of movies and ebooks. its more serious when they lock down the machine and add a tax to it like paying to use your microwave or toaster. you own the machine why not let it work?
Thats why piracy is actually a good thing. Data preservation wouldn't be possible without it as companies lock down their software more and more.
also its less expensive...
Anything the companies and elites try to stop or propagate falsehoods about, is actually good.
This is exactly what piracy should be used for. Especially when the software in question is no longer being sold or maintained.
EA and Nintendo are guilty for the worst practices they made.
It's not just about software, they're doing this to hardware as well.
I hate the fact that no one around me acknowledges this. It baffles me how no one realises that despite subscriptions only costing a few dollars a month, having several subscriptions adds up heavily. So many people are just irresponsible with their money
Well, short term costs but long term losses are kind of hard to see these days…people do not realise how expensive it is until it is too late.
@@nathanieljefferies5491 It’s so easy to see though by just doing some basic math but everyone seems too fcking dumb to do that. It‘s annoying since their careless spending enables companies to leech off their consumers with scummy business practices which affects everyone negatively. Stupid people like that are the reason why the common person may not be able to fully own anything in the near future.
@@yagoossimp well technically, this problem also occurs in housing too…isn’t it weird how in the US, no one can actually afford their houses and need to pay constantly to even afford a small one? And interest rates could skyrocket so much that you end up paying for 3 times its actual worth. It is just that many have been conditioned this to be normal. So this practice was just an incremental change in consumer behavior…it fits right with the shit practices of even utilities.
And you don’t own it. It’s not only a matter of long term vs short term costs. Company goes offline, bankrupt, whatever, anything associated goes offline too. I can still play my Amiga games (as long as the computer is in working condition).
@@kencur9690 yeah which is why I rarely go digital for console purchases. And why I got the Disc edition ps5 despite the cost. Mainly cause my family lends me their copies when I want to. But lately companies have been even making their hard copies online dependent…like this shit think with Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 where it was advertised as a disc edition when the disc is just an installer and the rest is in their shit cloud…I only buy games with a legitimate hard copy. Plus “sailing the seven seas” is not really such a bad thing anymore with all these “innovations” that make archiving stuff for the future hard.
This whole idea terrifies me. I can't stand the idea of not owning my "belongings" and will fight this awful trend as long as I live.
Iam with you brother
What about your life? No, I wish I was fucking joking. @Hugh Jeffreys
On May 7th of 2021, there was a a video on the product called the Ai-1 Airbag Vest from KLIM, that, embraced the subscription modal, HOWEVER, the airbags would not deploy if you made a lapse in your payment.
Klim still sells the vests. Not-charging = potential death
As long as it makes money you will own the permission to use that digital product 😂
We're probably past the point of no return now. On top of that, there are far more people who either don't know or don't care than there are those like you and I.
@@jhinabloomingflower807 permission ≠ owning
What really burns me up is the planned obsolescence. I have multiple phones and tablets that become unusable though they function perfectly fine. One day my applications tell me to update, so I click to update only to find out they no longer work with the current devices software, which I then attempt to update only to find that the newer software does not support my older hardware.
And every "smart" device like watches, locks etc stop working unless you update all your devices. And when the company stops updating their apps, the apps will not be compatible with updated iPhones or iPhones. Then I didn't even mention the batteries in many of these products.
This is why I only use android devices with good third party support - custom roms are a livesaver, especially with Samsung devices which have a junk skin on them. Motorola is cheap but good and many of their devices get custom roms to this day.
I have a samung galaxy s5 neo, I put CRdroid android 11 onto it, it runs pretty well, it use it with "drivedroid" so it can emulate flash drive images. A replacement battery cost just £5 and anyone can do it as it has a removable back, and put in a 128gb sd card I got for £9 off of ebay (I checked, it is legit).
That is justified as long as the hardware can sufficiently support the newer software; you can't expect a Galaxy S4 to run Android 12 smoothly.
@@mainaccount4585 My S5 runs android 11 pretty well - it's not too far fetched. Although I'd recommend a device with at least 4 gigs of ram.
if they're android there's probably versions of lineageOS for it that will get you on a newer, "supported" android version
It is a scary future for sure. I'm 25 so I'm in the strange reality where I've been familiar with media at the tail end of the analogue era and the beginning of the digital era - so as a toddler I was surrounded by VHS tapes, then DVDs, then downloads, then streaming. There's been a massive shift in just a quarter of a century. I do engage in streaming and it's made me pickier about shows I consider valuable to myself personally. If I really enjoy a show and consider it re-watchable, I'll go a step further and buy a DVD/Blu-ray copy to ensure that preservation. Although, this doesn't happen often now and it's usually sitcoms/Doctor Who/certain films I will buy in physical form now, as I don't have that much space for anything substantial. So, I try and maintain that hybridity as much as I can.
Planned obsolescence though does make me frightened for the future. Before my most recent phone all the ones I had had detachable backs so that the battery could be replaced which did come in handy. Of course now that’s becoming more and more difficult to do. For a lot of consumers though I guess it doesn’t matter as they’re so set on upgrading to the latest model every couple of years or less, despite them only having a few technical modifications. Conspicuous consumption at its finest. My current smartphone is four years old and I’m determined to keep it going for as long as possible as in all honesty there’s nothing wrong with it and it’s not obsolete, well not yet anyway.
That's before the phone manufacturer remotely throttles your phone through updates so it seems slower and you get mad and buy a new one. Apple admitted to doing this.
@@mae2759 I did experience that with old phones. I had a Galaxy Ace 2 not that long when I updated it with Jellybean and it was never the same again. Not enough processing power to run it evidently. Fortunately, I've had pretty smooth sailing with phones since then.
Everyone who still owns things as physical copies should be able to use them.
@@mae2759 happened to me with my galaxy S5... Ended up getting an S9+... After 4 years the charge port is messed up... Thus now the pixel 6 pro...
This is a big problem.
We absolutely need laws to protect us from these leeches.
But first, we need to get rid of the uniparties of the governments of America, Europe and Asia
@@brunoais 🤣🤣
@@grahamevans8567 ?
Agreed, but buyers are also sometimes part of the problem - the 'simple' solution is for people to stop buying from such companies, the problem is that too many people simply don't care or there may not be a suitable alternative - let's take smartphones as an example, buyers think that they must have the latest and 'greatest' smartphone and it's often from companies like Apple and Samsung (to name but two). But, as Hugh highlights, it's far more widespread than that, it's not just smartphones where this is a problem.
Another example: I prefer physical copies (discs) of movies and TV shows - digital streaming has its benefits but even 'buying' a digital movie (or TV show) doesn't prevent the streaming service from removing it at some point. Also streaming has far poorer video and audio than a HD Blu-ray and of course a 4K disc. I can also re-sell a disc, try re-selling a digital movie ......
@@SlartiMarvinbartfast I don't suffer from the "reselling" problem, thankfully. When I buy something because I like, I keep it.
I may watch sth on a visual streaming service and if I like, I buy. If I can't buy, I get. Maybe I'm an exception.
I'm not against subscription renting media, however, I'm against being unable to buy stuff to own.
Still, related to steam, even though you can't sell to other people, you can still own your own copy by downloading the game in an "outside steam" fashion.
"Properties" -> "Local Files" -> "Backup Game Files".
I understand wanting to be able to resell but I don't know how to solve that one. In my case, if I own the thing I buy (In this case, my game library), I'm accepting it. Even if I really can't make make money back from the things I bought digitally.
In my case, all the games I like the most which are on steam are backed up on a (supposedly) reliable hard drive, just in case. If steam goes rogue, I will replicate it.
If steam ever removes that feature, I will be seriously angry!
In Steam ToS, it tells the instance of the product bought is owned by the one who buys it, unless some 3rd party EULA applies which can override their ToS. So far, only nasty companies override parts of steam's ToS to make it not so good. With the exception of a single mistake I did, I don't buy items on the steam store with 3rd party EULA where I don't own my instance of the software.
As for the other digital stores... I don't spend money on epic store or console stores or google play, etc... I can't trust them. Things just disappear on those stores and I'm just renting the software anyway.
I suppose I'm the exception but I'd join any complaining mob about not being able to resell if I can find one. I can't and that's sad.
I appreciate you bringing this to light. Like you said, people don't really realize it's happening or don't care. This needs fixed now before it's too late
It's not something anyone in power will be aloud to fix. This is the future🤨
Because they locked into Apple ecosystem and guess what, people who complaint about what Apple did, still using their product...
@@zulfika_ yes, that's problem. People need to force change by not buying their products.
@@D_A86 wrong, people can do a lot and can prevent all that put do they want to do anything to prevent it is another question.
It can be fixed. How? European Union. They forced Apple (!!) to use USB C on new iPhone models. This will carried out by Apple in 2023/2024. So, with the iPhone 15 or 16.
"One thing that we have learned is that piracy is not a pricing issue. It's a service issue" ~Gabe Newell
He mentions Steam in the video, but this is actually one of the few cases where digital media makes sense. A modern PC game would require about 7 discs and Valve are a good company.
@@BraveInstance
Gabe is doing businesses with west taiwan, no bueno
Thank you.
@@piotrnod6489 Who's west Taiwan
I've been a pirate my whole life and I don't feel any bad for it, cus today's video game industry is doomed to fail and games are getting worse and worse
Who remembers the days of buying a computer game with keys that didn’t work, so you had to search for another 😂
Good old key generators.
The only Dealbreaker (unless you go Stupid): Malware
Whenever I raise this matter with people I know I’m told “oh well this subscription system is better because you get constant updates and stability, you don’t need to buy the new version”. I would much rather buy something once and then make the choice if I want to purchase a new version in the future.
i've got a total of 9 sofwares that are now subscription based and i am left with the hard copy that i can no longer register because they made the keys obsolete. i've got macromedia suite , and then adobe creative creative suite and then autodesk suite. all 3 older version that work fine. i decided NEVERMORE ! I AM EXHAUSTED
@@PHlophe if you’re not using them professionally then cracked versions are the way to go :D
Yeah, and a lot of times the newer version of something is also different. Like they removed a feature that you need. And if you're paying for a subscription, you are automatically paying for the newer thing. And it's not like they keep the subscriptions at the same price all the time, sometimes they increase it and it doesn't go back down.
photoshop was easyer to use back in 2014 ish now is more complicated for no reason
"You will own nothing and will be happy". Let's not let it happen!
Look into the Peonage Act of 1868 in the United States.
It prevents "voluntarily or involuntarily" "creating any obligation".
That's a W.E.F. slogan.
@@arvaneret_329 Yes, we're talking about globalization. Same idea, but on the largest scale and at the cost of freedom.
But it's already happening!
@@SilverWave64 and people don't seem to care at all
And that's the reason why we should all be grateful for the hard and complicated work that scene groups do for us!
I regret buying digital games for my 3ds and WiiU. With those stores shutting down, im realizing now that when those systems eventually break, it's going to be money down the toilet. Wont be able to sell those games or give them away. I'm trying my best to buy physical with my switch whenever i can
you can just link the NNID you used for your 3DS and Wii U to another Wii U or 3DS.
Jailbreak your 3DS and install what you want when you want. I never bought a single digital item for my 3DS. It's either physical or homebrew. Nothing else.
That only works if your older 3DS or Wii U is still functional. If your old one stops working, there’s no way to do a System Transfer, your old purchases and account die with the last console they were tied to.
@@KoopaMedia64 cant you login with an existing NNID on a new console or ask nintendo support
Nope, even Nintendo’s own website support page says you must have your old 3DS or Wii U on hand to do a System Transfer to a new or replacement system. If you try to sign into a NNID on a different 3DS or Wii U without the transfer, you’ll get an error message stating your NNID is already linked to a previous system.
It's so irritating that we the consumers always have to fight back on these gouging practices and it never ends. I would say something crazy that they'll try to charge us all for next but I don't wanna give these mentally derelict companies any ideas considering they now see seat warmer's as a monthly fee item.
Government oligarchs and their corporations and co-regnant government agencys have reduced the rest of us to cattle in pens. How dare we oppose our masters and disbelieve their controlling lies about what we should and shouldn't do?
It's cute that you think you can come up with something these corporations have not thought about charging you for. LOL
Bruh, imagine if Ryobi went this route and make us pay for charging our Ryobi drill batteries each charge
@@CautionusJay You done gave Ryobi the idea. SMH ! Y'all need to keep those sinister thought to y'alls damned selves lol!
@@PHlophe lol if they literally went that route I would have to forego being a Ryobi nerd, forego all my ryobi tools and batteries and chargers. Even destroy my custom Ryobi themed GameCube
Great video, thank you for bringing this to everyone’s attention!
I saw this coming years ago with Microsoft Office 365, which by the way recently ended “Office,” and it is now Microsoft 365. I didn’t expect it to get this bad with it becoming “Everything As A Service,” aka “Everything As A Subscription.”
This is why I support piracy and some other "questionably legal" issues like copyright evasion (which is illegal in Australia btw). I'm not saying that I pirate everything, just the things which I can't *legally* own. I remember the glory days of copyright evasion with the "Free Speech Flag" (GREAT story, wish it was more remembered nowadays)
Preach
I pirate movies because I only ever watch them once, so the idea of paying for a movie just to watch it once is ridiculous to me. It's not like a movie theater where the movie is not available yet, its movies that have been out for a while that still cost upwards of $20 for a digital copy on sites like Amazon and the Google Playstore. One day I plan on buying a 2tb HDD specifically for storing pirated HD movie files just as an "f you" to the movie industry. A 1 hour and 40 minute to 2 hour and 30 minute feature should take about 2 to 5 gigabytes if only in 1080p, so 2tb should store about 500 to 600 movies. That is enough to last years of enjoyment that of which you would never get even with 10 years worth of subscriptions to Netflix.
what's copyright evasion? The only thing I found on google is a friday night funkin mod
piracy is exactly pricing issue, how many of you used the cracked version of Winrar ?
then how many of you willing to donate $1300 to Adobe after you use it for free for 17 months ?
@@electronresonator8882 how can WinRAR be cracked? It just notifies you after the 40 days or whatever it was, doesn't it?
I started buying physical copies of all my favorite albums and movies in the past couple years, mostly due to censorship worries and because I enjoy the nostalgia, but I definitely also agree with your points in this video! The only time I've ever paid a subscription for something was the 3 months for $1 promotion Spotify did a while ago, and I pretty much stopped buying digital unless it's linked to an account not associated with a specific OS. With the way things are turning, I'd better pick up the stockpiling though. Piracy and buying physical is the way to go at this point.
I made a list of older films for that exact reason
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I packed up all of my CDs because I use digital players all the time, but I won’t sell them and I still have a CD changer. I have no turntable but I do have vinyl from long ago and I doubt that I would get much for it (nor do I think the CDs are worth much either; there probably aren’t many people who appreciate my taste in music) but I’m tempted to sell it just to free up the space. I have CDs of everything I most want to listen to.
I only buy physical videogames because of that, I own what, two that aren't ? It's kind of a shame that much less games get sold like that save for the big ones nowadays. I wish i could own older ones, but with the market pricing and the stupid subscriptions ( seriously Nintendo, 50€ a year to play badly emulated N64 games ? ) emulation is the only way to play them.
I still have CDs some of which I have owned since the 1980s. When I am listening to a CD I think the sound is better then what I hear with streaming. I also own the CD. A one time purchase 30 years ago.
This is the reason why piracy is now a NECESSITY.
Yeah it sucks so much. I’ve been using the Adobe CS5 suite and it’s one of the last versions of the adobe software you could buy outright. It sucks knowing I can’t ever upgrade this software without having to pay a fee monthly. It’s a problem in this age that people ignore, I like to buy physical media like DvD and CD because I have the media in my hand.
laughs in cracked Adobe Creative Cloud 2015
@@shadowthefurryscientist CC 2015 is good but I think cs5 is better optimised
@@rtyt2007 i only have it just because i have it
you can also try the Libre software alternatives, that try to provide an alternative to proprietary software, by following specific licenses that provide safety mechanisms prohibiting those selfish behaviors. GIMP, Krita, etc come to mind. If software will be used, it should be Libre.
U could buy CS6
You are one of the most important TH-camrs and it's very brave of you to make this content. This subscription based economy is overtaking the housing market as well. In the U.S. mega-companies are buying up real estate and pricing people out of buying a house so we are forced to rent and lease. We'll have a home but not a house.
Yes, but there’s plenty of land. It just means housing in high-demand areas is going to get really inflated
You’ll own nothing and be happy - WEF
@@murray821 Yes how disturbing this expression is! They try to make it easy while controlling people's lives.
@@kariossyr6018 they will slowly impose socialism upon us without the most even knowing it. Because of convenience and the magic word: “Safety”
Rent has always been a scam
I've warned against this for over a decade. It's sad how everything is slowly going subscription only and digital DRM.
digital can be done right, just make it drm free for example.
@@Ralphunreal yeah I agree. Digital in itself isn't bad. It even helps gamers buy normally rare games when profiting scalpers exist out there. But DRM needs to go.
Also something to note about digital purchases, the platform owner has the right to revoke your license to the media at any time. I'd like to see Sony knock on my door and take my game collection!
(e.g.) Avid MCE standard:
-Before: US$29.99/lifetime (updates+features packed in)
-Now: US$239.99/year + US$14.99/month+ProTools subscription*+features* (separated and paid at Store) (no liable if offline)
And we even have had a real life demonstration of that reality, with Russia. Steam got out of the country, and all russian steam games became unavailable to download, buy or play online. Their entire collection is efectivelly dead, unless they had it downloaded locally. There is also the precedent of some ebook seller some years ago, that simply went out of business and the digital collection of customers was erased. Fun times, that is why piracy or free sharing is the way.
Luckily, iTunes doesn't do this with music purchases I believe since 2009. I cannot say the same for movie and TV program purchases.
@@baraodascolinas979 Not really. All games i already brought can be Played/Downloaded at any time. However, i cant add money to my steam account (in rubles), and to buy any game i need to convert rubles to tenge (Kazakhstan money), and turn on vpn, since most of the games are not sold in Russia.
@@baraodascolinas979 Correction if you share what’s your own staff or your purchases they describe like a piracy!😅
I still download music on my phone and laptop and store it offline. And liaten to it offline. It makes me appreciate each and every song, instead of random party playlists, or workout playlists shoved in our ears like I'm a monkey.
"I'm so different because I listen to the same 10 songs every day"
@@florixn_de
Seriously? You can store thousands of songs on your phone.
You're paying just as much for expanding storage
@@lunayen You don‘t pay for the songs themselves. You also pay for the algorithms that recommend you new songs based on your taste. Besides that, I don‘t have the time to manually download every song I wanna listen to from TH-cam
@@florixn_de
Algorithms don't know everything about you, and even so, you can also buy what you have listened to that peaks your interest.
My guide for buying new tech:
-Does it require internet?
-Is it subscription based?
-Does the technology come in physical form, and can it be used in its physical form?
-Can you plug it in ANYWHERE and use it?
-Will it be usable as a stand-alone device in 5 years?
These are the things that I look for. Sure, it keeps me using 2000-2010 technology, but I'd rather be a luddite than be taken advantage of and own nothing. I'm done with tech that tries to push me in that direction. I'm pretty happy actually.
Reason why I buy video game disks still for my ps5. It surprised me that the majority of people start buying digitally. I had the same feelings as you as soon as the digital versions became a thing.
Disks are so slow and annoying, that they make HDD loading times look like blazing fast NVME SSD's.
@@JakeobE thats why u download them from the disc to the drive
@@JakeobE when you use game disc it will copy the game to your system first, and it will be used as authentication of ownership, you are not playing directly from the disk
@@superqaxclub Sounds like a huge waste of resources to make and include a disk drive for just authentication and the potential to get $1 to $25 back for reselling a game disk.
i prefer digital by a large margin.
BUT, as soon as a generation is over, i unlock my console and fill it with all my favorite games from that generation, and never take it online again. basically preserving the generation for myself. i don't mind not being able to resell games. i think i've sold 5 games in my entire life and they were definitely more trouble than they were worth to sell. i'd rather keep them.
Other thing of subscription is changing the rules as it goes. Censoring media, for example. Instead of a warning, some stuff you want to watch, read, or listen to gets censored, changed or simply disappears overnight. Very orwellian future right there... Rewritting everything, living in an eternal present.
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This is a VERY important message. Glad to hear you promoting it; we all need to understand how we are being abused by the digital world.
I think this point can also apply to the lack of modular upgrades that can be made to newer laptops, specifically MacBooks. Soldered on RAM and storage leaves the consumer stuck with what they bought, after spending a considerable sum of money too! So if their requirements for their device expand, then they are incentivized to buy new, rather than upgrade the RAM or SSD capacity. We know a slim and modern laptop you can easily upgrade can be made, just look at Framework's.
and if the ram goes bad or when the SSD inevitibly reaches its Read Write limit then you'll be forced to buy a whole new machine instead of replacing he 1 part for less than 100 dollars
To be fair to Apple, their new arm chips (M1, M2) have the RAM integrated to the SoC (processor) for much better performance. The SSD could still be made replaceable though.
At least dell still offers laptops with replaceable parts
I can 100% understand the lack of modularity on a phone, but I think a 2230 M.2 drive could fit just fine on the MacBooks, even the Air. About RAM, what was the last time RAM failed on a SoC-based device anyways? They seem to be fairly reliable in my opinion. Only real problem is that you absolutely MUST choose the higher spec model (16GB RAM or greater).
Soldered storage is a lot worse. It actually makes soldered RAM look reasonable.
Under my TV is a range of old school game consoles like NES and Super Nintendo, with games in the drawer. These bring me back to my childhood and I can pick up and play them whenever I want. Kids growing up with phone games or other online content will never be able to do this as adults, as games only 5 or so years old are being discontinued, removed from stores and servers shut down. Nostalgia ceases to exist in the digital age.
Ehhhh i own that shit 2 but even that stuff isnt evergreen. Old consoles can fail with age unless u maintain it yourself or have ppl maintain it for u. I also think the digital world is the reason many games are preserved as ppl dump roms online so they remain evergreen.
This is why I don't buy digital stuff. All must be on physical media. Games,music,movies. If we keep prioritizing this, it may help. Same with using cash. True. It's with our support.
However physical media that requires the internet doesn't count. That throws out all* modern game releases. Also DRM protected media depending on the situation doesn't count.
@@ky5666 Farming Simulator 19 has a DVD version that does not require the internet
physical has disk rot and also tehy can have drm. for example a lot of ps5 and xbox games have drm where you need internet anyways for it to work like gran turismo 7. you also need to download important patches day 1 and even post launch at a point.
@@Ralphunreal Whatever they do, we must oppose to limiting our private ownership over things that we're paying for. It's important.
Thank you for addressing this HATEFUL business practice !
This is the way to go. Anyone that has an audience reach, should talk about this. Thanks Hugh!
Copyright and patent laws need to go.
This is why I never buy legit software unless it’s from an honest developer and they deserve the support to fund future projects. Final Cut Pro iv always had cracked and Adobe suite.. i once paid for Adobe flash and then it got shutdown and I didn’t even get 6 months worth out it and they wouldn’t partially refund it
I used to make a big effort to keep installers for programs and games. I still use Adobe CS6, the last non-subscription version afaik, with a license bought for work purposes and have installed it on several computers as I upgraded through the years. Currently Adobe isn't even hosting the installers anymore, so you can only use the license if you were keeping the files yourself, or are desperate enough to trust dodgy hosts. The installer will still connect to Adobe for verification and check for updates, so there's still a way for them to kill new installations with the old license if they choose to.
And obviously the only reason I am not maintaining an installer library for myself anymore is that the installers aren't even available anymore, or wouldn't function without establishing a connection to the publisher anyways.
Subscriptions flourished because of the improved availability of the products, but gradually the companies are locking out their customers again. We'll just go back to pirating stuff at this pace.
Where is the best place to get adobe suite cracked? I am sick of paying the subscription
@@adamchrismartin rutracker
@@adamchrismartin Russia
Pitajee jaswinder, i am one of those people who bought the macromedia creative suite when i was 18 and it had macromedia director with it too. flash gone, director gone SMH ! money down the drain.
This is why I plan on keeping my Blu-ray player as long as I can. I own copies of the movies and TV shows I purchased and don't trust streaming services not to pull them at any time (saying that, I do have a Netflix subscription but I make sure that when I watch something I really like and want to rewatch, I have a physical copy on hand). We are sacrifing too much in the name of convenience.
Yeah facts. Owning a physical copy of something you enjoy is beautiful. I don't have to keep paying for a service and remember if you keep a subscription you use WiFi date and ELECTRICITY 🔌 . Double whammy on the pocket.
Worst part is you still hardly own the blu-ray. It's illegal for you to copy physical data off of a disk that you own.
@@colbyboucher6391 are you sure it's not legal? I thought it is ok as long as you don't distribute it?
@@colbyboucher6391 true. Without AnyDVD… or ABGX360 for back in the day Xbox games and a flashed disk drive or hotswap method. Games, shows, music, it’s all off the table now
This is also why I would never subscribe to services like GamePass. It's a trap. Because after years of using the service it is like you were only renting and will have nothing to show for it (plus you always have to be online) - You will own nothings and be happy, the gazillionaires tell us.
I made an entire report on this for my English class and had a large discussion about it with my professor. Nobody argued against me, hahaha. At the same time, I'm possibly the oldest in the classroom, so many of them probably were born around the time ipods and iphones were on the market. I'm just hoping record stores don't disappear any time soon. I love CD's too much and it's comforting to listen to them without the there being done funky AI type thing complete having control over your access to media.
The first IPhone was about 2008
@@commonsense39212007 actually
I've never felt so justified in clinging to old technology
Long live old tech! Never failed me once and always straight forward
old tech is also built to last unlike newer garbage
This is why we can't have nice things. They regressed the limit of light bulbs because they were too good that no one has to buy them again for a long time.
I try to but when someone does not want you to hold on to it, a kill switch is being used. Trust me, they do their thing mercilessly, and sooner or later, if you are too far out of line, a kill switch is used on your “old tech” as well. Edit: remotely thru hacking the software. Europe is terrible in this regard, they forbid b type chargers and fossil fuel cars and here in Austria even fossil fuel heating. So cray cray
Apple leading from the front and paving the way. No other company in the world can get away with stuff as much as they do. They make sure to take full advantage of it.
Apple is a bad example for other companies and apple should be shut down for good. Apple comes up with a useless overpriced feature but people would still buy it, this is causing other companies to follow the same route as they are understanding that people would buy it anyway.
And we can't do anything about it because the braying sheep keep buying it up. And then when other companies start to follow, people who once mocked Apple start making excuses too. Remember when Apple removed the headphone jack and Android users were laughing at Apple left and right? Then Android phone manufactures started taking out the headphone jack and all the braying sheep following Samsung, Google, etc also started making excuses instead of refusing to buy.
Morons are taking everything away from us and there's not much we can do about it.
actually John Deere started this
@@maharaj8460 so in short ppl are mad cause other companies cant sell so they have to take Apple's business strategy
@@takoflame4948 wrong!!!! That’s totally false! They all have their own stupid reasons! John Deere doesn’t want to share their previous software for machines to be hacked…..
I have been worried about this for a while. Anytime someone or I would bring it up, there seemed to be a lot of push back with people not really caring. I am noticing more and more how new tech is made so it constantly wants you to buy the newest one. It seems to hold back one feature and is only supported for a short amount of time with no repairs and such. I also bought a Stadia game, and it confirmed my worry about supporting such models. Thankfully Google should be reimbursing people's money.
gaming is already fucked for the legit way every console disc nowdays is nothing more then a download disc wich is stupid i should be able to play a single player game without a freaking internet connection but now i need to download the day 1 patch to even boot the game. so if my ps ever gets broken and the servers are shut down that disc is useless
@@killerboybe1515 I worry about that too. It doesn't help not having access to fast wireless internet and I am mostly a single player gamer. The gaming landscape is getting more grim by the years. Everything will become live service that has the potential to shut down at any notice.
@@Drstrange3000 Just use wired internet
@@SaveznaRepublikaJugoslavija 3mbps is the fastest internet I can get. Do you think it being wired would have a significant effect. My gaming laptop also doesn't have an Ethernet port. I just use my phone hotspot right now.
@@Drstrange3000 3MBPS for wireless or in total?
THANK YOU for saying this. I’ve been saying this for so long and everybody just shrugs and says ‘what can you do?’. It’s so sad that people just roll over and let companies just roll in profit day after day.
Peonage Act of 1868 in the United States. It prevents "involuntarily or voluntarily" "creating any obligation".
You are a seriously underrated channel. More people need to know about this.
This is a massive problem.
Renting apt
Leasing a car.
Renting Netflix.
Subscriptions golore.
Have you read the article about 2030?
'its 2030, I own nothing and I'm happy'
Why?
Why do this? Because when you have nothing you own you have no power. They want you powerless
@Yummy Spaghetti Noodles I just listed the problems.
Not owning
Totally agree. things needs to be repair-friendly, this is also happening in almost every consumer products now a days. devices, appliances are made in a way to restrict repair, forcing to buy new.
Probably the biggest problem with digital media versus physical media (particularly games), is that even if you buy a game on disc these days, you’d be lucky to get the bare-bones experience of it.
There are very few games on any consoles post PS2/X-Box, that are complete when you get them.
You regularly have “Day 1 patches”, as well as optional DLC to start with (costumes/vehicles/weapons etc). Things that used to be fully unlockable in-game are now sold separately as “pre-order bonuses” which invariably use online codes to unlock.
Then you have the vast majority of games that have DLC packs (whether it’s one-off or seasonal), and some games limit access if you don’t buy the latest DLC.
Then you have “live service” games where you have to be online to play them, and many of these also have subscriptions tied to them.
So while having disc-based content would be preferable, producers are limiting the number of titles available in full on disc, meaning you have a smaller collection of titles to choose from if you don’t want to buy additional DLC.
The problem of ownership would be easily solvable by allowing people to actually own their digital games. Meaning that they can re-sell them they want, just like they can sell used software keys. We can do that only because the EU imposed that on software companies.
I don't think we can go back to using phisical media, but the times are mature to build a common infrastructure that can allow reagular people to buy and sell digital goods.
Could not agree more. We are at the point where even unfinished Beta and Alpha Level software is asking for subscriptions. It is so ridiculous.
Microsoft is trying to control the PC and OS market by forcing Bios creators to enforce their certification and secure-boot BS. (Essentially blocking out free Operating Systems not certified by Micro$oft.)
If I'm traveling in an area without Network, Some apps treat me like a criminal.
"Something went wrong with verifying your purchase ". My Ass.
In the beginning, I report stuff like this as a Bug only to then have the App-Developers tell me, that "If we would not check online all the time, people would pirate the App". Bullcrap.
Luckily, there are good open-source solutions for most programs.
Sure, they are not the most convenient at times, but at least I can reinstall them on any new Device, without being treated like I stole or never bought them.
My phone has become a pure Communications device again.
For everything else, I have a Linux laptop.
For Games, there is GOG. They still allow us to own the Games we buy. All be it as installation files, but at least without DRM.
Hugh is slowly radicalizing his entire community and I'm here for it. 👀
he's not "radicalising" anyone. he's just spreading awareness of the ongoing situation
@@mesa8888 my sibling in Christ, it’s a joke.
@@deeegoletsgo1379 I know lmfao
Hugh is a terrorist
WOAAAAHHHH HAHA ITS A JOKE DUDE XD
We do a little extremism
I've been thinking a lot about this recently, and yeah it's scary stuff. On a semi-related note, this is why I try and own a lot of physical media. Because I don't like the idea of the government or some 3rd party being able to take down what I want to see on the internet.
Sounds like conversation heard inside the pot by frogs just as the water starts to fully boil.
Thank you for helping people understand these emerging and mushrooming issues. Many people that I discuss these issues with try and tell me that 'cloud', streaming, and physical media-less purchases are a good thing because of the 'convenience' factor. They see the short-term picture only. Hopefully your video series and this video in particular will help educate consumers about the rights they are giving up in the long-term.
DaVinci Resolve is the software I migrated to years ago. After the slight learning curve, I now love it--and it's free or you can pay for a more feature rich version.
I have been talking about this for years. I saw this coming when people stopped buying CDs and began streaming their music. We as a society are being tricked into paying for things but never owning them. We need to fight back as consumers by not paying for these services.
exactly!
I've been warning it since the end of the swappable batteries on smartphones.
And, all of this is more darker than most of you can think.
How dark is it?
I want to build a back to basics electric car. All open source software and all parts replaceable with off the shelf parts. Modded and improved by a community of owners. No software to lock you out or track you.
We as tech savy consumerism must continue finding ways around it to do our part
Great video, Hugh. You are tremendous asset to intelligent and civilized people everywhere.
And I think it's outrageous that Apple charges monthly for more iCloud storage. 5 gigs ain't shit 😤
We could actually do something about this, if people stopped buying their shit all together. But there will always be someone or a dozen who buy them every now and then, no matter if its a movie or a game.
the problem is some people will always buy them, because they don't care. we need to spread awareness and this is what hugh is doing right now
True
You've just convinced me to start buying my music from iTunes (or a similar store) since it's DRM-free. I'll continue to use Apple Music as it's included with other services I do actually use on a day-to-day basis (photo backup, cloud storage, etc), but this way I will have my media collection right on my home media server.
I buy from Amazon these days.
BANDCAMP THE GOAT
Only problem with this is that you are only buying the rights to stream your songs and they could remove it from their site any time and you’ll lose what you bought with no compensation. People would buy movies on Amazon and they’d get removed without notice and so their money’s worth dissipates into thin air.
@@kreeves1459 Amazon still gives users the ability to download mp3s after purchase. Once downloaded, you can crack open the folder structure in your PC and transfer the file where you like. They recently made it more inconvenient to do so (to keep you in their app), but the transfer is possible.
@@kreeves1459 that's not actually the case, when you purchase a song on iTunes you can get a DRM-free .m4a file (last I checked). That means you can always listen to it, on any device, with no account required
Until the mid-20th century, durability and repairability were expected of most products, and were often significant selling points. The fact that we now need to advocate for the Right to Repair shows how much companies are trying to stop people from fixing their things. The concept of repairing should've never had to become a counterculture, but it now is...
The moment I saw software becoming more subscription based, I immediately went to looking for 3rd party alternatives in which I refused to use a monthly subscription fee. It may not be much per month, but the numbers add up. For example, Microsoft Office started doing this, and I switched to something like Open Office or Libre Office....both are free and work just as well as the ladder. I didn't have to pay for a monthly subscription fee on something like word processing software, which is a big essential in every computer and mobile device.
And I am still using my parents' burned copy of MS Office 2000, recently copied the installer to a flash drive so I can install it to computers without optical drives or in case the CD breaks because of my clumsiness
“You will own nothing, and you will be happy”
I 100% hate this statement
"You will own nothing and be happy." -World Economic Forum. This is all part of their plan. I have a pretty big collection of 4k blurays, blurays, and 3d blurays, and some dvd's. One day they may be worth a sizeable chunk of change second hand because of censorship and the dwindling ability to actually own what you pay for.
Even with the purchasing of a digital copy of a movie or TV series and it being tied to your account isn't a sure thing. Recently, Warner Brothers pulled purchased digital copies made by users through their HBOMax store without any compensation. That's right: the users paid for an extended lease and those purchases was pulled from their account, with no compensation back.
this is why piracy is good...
@@grandstarstudiosFORMER-YT At this point, piracy is becoming the only way to preserve works. That includes works that don't have a current digital release (such as short-lived TV series and movies that never made the jump from VHS to DVD, Laserdisc to DVD or DVD/Blu-Ray to digital release).
You know what they say,
YOU WILL OWN NOTHING, AND YOU WILL BE HAPPY
And since everyone is happy with the current situation, expect it to be much worse
That phrase is so illegal that it should be banned elsewhere, I mean that's suspicious enough to see or hear that
"You will on nothing, and be happy. " The great reset in full swing. Buy and support physical media.
Also the fact that a monthly subscription for music is still worth more than a movie one is still absurd for me
Because I think people consume more music than movies in my opinion.
I'm in the US, and watch a lot of TH-cam on my Android phone/tablet, and TV via Roku, and a Google Chromecast, so I pay for TH-cam Premium so don't have to deal with all the ads, and it includes TH-cam music ad free, and on the single plan it's only slightly more than what something like Spotify cost on it's own, and despite TH-cam's problems I think it's worth the money.
@@HShango Yep I can walk around work with my earbuds on, and listen to music throughout my day while I work, if I want to watch a movie that takes way more of my attention, and is a major distraction. which is why the only other services I pay for are TH-cam TV for sports, and the kids shows, and Peacock as it's cheap, has a decent selection of movies, and TV shows along with WWE, and other live sports not on TH-cam TV(still cheaper than a basic cable package that has less channels that I can only use at home).
copyright law for music is a more fickle one compared to other types of intellectual properties. the subsciption model in music largely make sense because of it. but others like software that don't really need to be doing live services like adobe have really no business doing a subscription model.
@@CommodoreFan64 Yeah premium is worth the money
This is why I tend to look for free open source software over subscription based software. I'd rather use GIMP than pay for Adobe's subscription software that allows them to take it away because they feel like I should pay again and again.
Main reason I don't buy digital plus is boring with no style. I'm sorry I'm old school
Hi fellow pirate, corporate internet took over after the fall of megaupload, but there's always a way for freedom
You are absolutely right Hugh. We can't let technology control us. Yes we are letting it happen. To be honest, I'm getting sick of technology. Android Auto forces me to keep upgrading (each year so far) or it stops working. Nothing wrong with the hardware, just a software matter. It's built-in obsolescence. Sometimes I just don't like upgrading. I do like older tech, I still have VHS video recorder, CD and DVD players and a turntable. I have lots of DVD and VHS movies as well. We are becoming too reliant on technology,. Also, with the repair of modern tech devices not being encouraged, this creates a huge throw-away society. The amount of electronic waste is staggering. Wonder how this will be in 10-20 years from now. Electric cars are being forced upon us to some degree, how will these be in 10 or so years when the battery is degrading? The cost of replacing could be prohibitive (look at Tesla). Electronics ages and becomes unreliable so say an old electric car may have other issues too costly to repair and with the battery cost will these older electric cars become e-waste? It's certainly possible. Time will tell. I've said a bit much here, some off topic, but it's all another part of the digital age.
Grim future for the tech world, the feeling I've been constantly having is that the internet and tech peaked when it came out but companies didn't fully understand how to monetize the living shit out of everything. Back when buying a phone meant you completely owned it, same for games, when you could upload almost anything on TH-cam, when people posted on the internet without having sponsors behind or trying to get the maximum amount of monetization out of their content. Like always money ruins all joy.
Books is a tricky one too. As the digital files are so much more convenient but Amazon basically has a monopoly on the legal version.
@8bg I agree, is there somewhere I can go for more specifics on this process?
First 3 second gang?
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Currently sharing this video with everyone I know. The world needs to see this.
Ain`t this future already in present, "we'll own nothing and be happy."? - Lets take a look around, what to we own? Nothing! We rent everything.
And whence renting and owning meant the same thing?
As what is rented, must be given back
and what is owned can be kept.
The industrial revolution and his counsequenses
What a wake-up call! Thank you for this informative vid!
I completely agree with Hugh, the customers are indirectly paying more at the end but most people don't realise that and needs fixed now before it's too late!
This is a very pitiful subject that has been bugging me for a while. I woke up one day only to realise the number of subscription payments coming out of my bank account. Totally agree that we will own nothing in the near future! Including our cars, that's why the government is pushing us towards Electric cars where everything is controlled by software and affordability.
Yup, & that’s exactly why I told my old lady I’ll never give up on my fuel burned engine. I’ll drive a damn tractor if I have to. I know exactly what there doing
i mean.. you dont NEED to pay monthly for adobe software. its a thing called 'pirating'. pretty sure its illegal. but who cares.
Yeah..but not everyone wants to go back to that life style, I used to do that way back (years ago), pirating Adobe is jarring.
@@octavius8562 well, you ever think about the people who just dont have the money? such as myself. i know its wrong. and if i really had the money to actually spend on products, i 100% would. im just not in that point in life. and probably wont be for the remainder of my childhood. i dont prefer stealing, its just my last resort.
@@HShango understandable. just to make it clear, this was partly a joke. it was never meant to be taken seriously.
@@octavius8562 im aware. i actually use some of those. but im not just talkin about adobe products. its hard to find quality products at a free cost. and people do end up makin some pretty impressive shit with them. but that aint me. for example; all of my art is done in Krita. a free and open source art program. and when im not with my laptop, i use autodesk sketchbook on my phone. and for animation, ive been tryin to use opentoonz (a bit a pain in the ass tbh). and music, ive been using a pirated version of FL Studio 20.7. along with audacity for recording. because i dont really like using Edison. i still rely on freeware. but i still pirated a few things. now, i may end this here. i never meant for a joke to become this discussion. it wasnt meant to be taken seriously. damn.
Ubisoft is a good example of this. Removing people’s access to purchased games and DLCs. It’s madness when we’ve paid for stuff but it’s in no way ours in any shape or form. I seen this coming many years ago and I hate how far it’s going 😢
This is why I'm still running Photoshop CS 5.1. I can use it forever, and I don't have Adobe software lurking in my system tray, 24/7. Steam does let you share your games with a handful of friends or family members, so someone could still benefitting from them, even if you're not playing.
Business ethics and professional ethics is a thing and is even a subject in college. I can see that these companies are doing their best to stay away from it.
in this era we just rent our tech products for 1500 $ or plus for a short period and after they will force u to rent another by updates that slow the devices...we own nothing
This is why I have a record player, CD player, and cassette player. I want to actually own stuff. Same with supporting Bandcamp, at least you actually get the downloads and it's not locked in iTunes.
For streaming services, it's still a bargain for what we used to get for our dollar.
For physical items, we should own the outright. No excuses.
FL Studio is actually really good about this. I don't know if they have a physical version anymore, and I believe its license was limited in some way anyway, but they actually let you transfer ownership of the digital license as per the terms of service, enabling you to give or sell your license to someone else. I believe the same was true for licenses of Microsoft Windows, though I don't know how that works anymore with the whole digital license key thing. I think that should be the legal standard - if you own a digital license to a piece of software, you should have the legal right to transfer that license to someone else.
AFAIK The EULA does not permit this but you are free to do so. Their take on it is that if you bought FL, you might sooner or later come back to it. Some people lose passion for music but it comes back after a while. Also, the free updates for life is 👌
The way it works with Microsoft is kinda hokey, but a license key *can* be used on different hardware, albeit in an obscured manner. I had a hard drive that died on an old laptop, twice, and both times I was just able to reinstall windows on the new drive, sign in to my MS account, and the license was transferred. With the PC I built, I have replaced several components (including the drive. Each of these replaced at different times though, not all at once) and Windows is still activated. I was even miraculously able to transfer the key from one desktop to another once. However, Linus Tech Tips has made a video about this and how sometimes a license will be deactivated when a change of hardware occurs.
“You will own nothing and be happy.” - World Economic Forum
This is a great video, Hugh. I really like your point about music streaming- I’ve been trying to convince my mom to stop paying for Apple Music, because I found a way to *cough* illegally *cough* download music. And what I don’t like about music streaming platforms is that once you stop paying for the subscription, you lose all your music and downloads.
Me to, still use mp3's so that I can fill an SD card for my car
I buy music through iTunes, but I'm considering buying physical media now. Buying physically means exactly that: What is yours, is YOURS, unless stolen or destroyed.
@@electric7487 or yt2mp3
@@electric7487 youtube has shitty quality.
@@zekiz774 That's why you download in uncompressed or lossless formats (e.g. WAV or FLAC) instead of lossy formats like MP3. Check the video itself as well; the same song will be compressed in some videos and uncompressed in others.
Steam should let you get the game code for your game which you can then sell online
As an old guy who has owned his favorite music on vinyl, 8-track-cassette, CD, and MP3, I don't use streaming services because I recognize that I've already paid for this music several times over, and I don't want to keep paying for this music on a monthly basis, especially because the artists do not benefit from this.
I had an issue where I moved into a new apartment, and the cable was out, so I had NO internet access for a full month. Physical media helped.
But the big wake-up was when Google threatened to delete my account, which has about $500 worth of movies that I "purchased."
I suggest you to rip every single movie from your account in the highest quality possible, get a DVD or BD Drive, burn each one of them in a compatible format and you'll feel less worried about your account being deleted with that much money given away, with all that backed up it won't matter if your account is lost forever and the purchases vanishing out of thin air, you'll have all your stuff under YOUR control and no one can tell you otherwise about having physical media, that could be the best middle finger to google for such a threat, shame on them and this will be you telling google to go F themselves.
I think you missed something very important and frustrating: If your account gets cancelled for whatever reason Google, Microsoft etc. thinks, what happens to the items you BOUGHT?
Yes, exactly, they fall on the money pit
“Imagine no possessions, I wonder if you can”
imagine all the people
living life in rent
Apple protecting users from malicious screens, cameras, and batteries is a feature which is taken for granted because you already are protected so you don't realize the threat.
Maybe you don't understand how "easy" (obviously it's not trivial, but well within possibility; it's been done before on other devices) it is to implant special chips when the phone is being manufactured or when the device crosses a security checkpoint like a border, but as a normal person you can't do any better than Apple.
Yes, your screen broke and you take it to a shop to be replaced by someone who is 18 or 19 trying to make money to pay for college, but that just shows how trivial it is to take apart an iPhone and replace the parts. How do you protect both a grandmother and White House officials visiting foreign countries with the same device?
You do what Apple does. You make a secure enclave chip which is extremely expensive and destructive to retrieve it's secret keys (basically need to destroy the phone). You then use that to authenticate the BIOS, Operating System, Encrypted Storage, Camera, Screen, Battery, and USB Cable. Why? Cause all these things are being attacked all the time. Notice when you hold the power button + top volume button on your iPhone and it locks. Connect a USB cable and it says you need to enter a password: That's because a REAL attack was being executed against real journalists around the world.
I am 100% for right to repair, but you can't just continue to spread this, essentially, misinformation about what those features mean. Go look up or ask any respected security professional and ask what phone would be the most secure for a normal person? 90% it'll be a relatively new iPhone(roughly >11 or 12) & not enabling iCloud (because until last month you couldn't End-To-End encrypt iCloud).
Be careful thinking you don't own your iPhone before advocating for changes that will make sure the iPhone gets pwned in ways we don't even need to worry about today.
Torrents are life saver, I don't remember buying anything digital till now. Piracy of music and videos can be done, but it's tough for online gamers now...
torrents are risk to getting viruses.
only with software @@Ralphunreal you can't get infected that way with movies, videos or music, I've been torrenting for years and what you said had no sense at all if you only download that kind of content.
I'm doing my own fair bit of fighting back, first of all people need to fight back against MSFT (Windows), 2. people also need to vote with their wallet, stop adobe dictating how you should be able to use adobe. 3. it is time to fight back (i left windows ecosystem for linux, because linux = freedom) #KDENeon
I plan on doing the same as you. I’m tired of windows and windows 10 will be the last OS i will use from MSFT. But i just don’t have the funds and resources to go to Linux yet. But i plan by late 2023 to begin leaving windows behind. Thankfully valve is gonna be making it a lot easier to have a good alternative to windows. But i agree with what you said here. People need to vote with their wallet, thats how things will change.