> The surveillance technology itself is not really that novel
What's novel is that the tech reports you to the authorities. Imagine your AV reporting you to the authorities for digital piracy, it's something that RIAA could only dream of back in the day. Now it's becoming a reality.
"We just scan every song on your iPod to make sure the neural hash isn't copyrighted content. If it is blah blah blah tokens blah blah report you to the RIAA."
Just bought a System76 laptop. Happy birthday Linux!
Or they could just scan the songs themselves. Why bother with hashing when you have full control? This is a red herring.
Since they have had the ability and incentive to stop music piracy that way for at least a decade, and haven't done it, that should tell you something.
Gotta go deeper and scan the bank transactions going through your phone. Why not just watch your screen and build a model of everything you do. It's a slippery slope ... of extrapolation.
> Gotta go deeper and scan the bank transactions going through your phone.
Sight Piracy as the reason, but get better conversion tracking for those sweet Ad clicks. We all know which companies would be drooling at the prospects of this.
Sadly this isn't hypothetical, Card companies have colluded with the data hoarders in the past for this exact purpose.
Well clearly the burden of proof now lies with you. Have fun with our fully automated appeal process. If you get over 10,000 retweets we may reconsider.
The idea is to force you to buy the same content in multiple platforms. Bought content would have DRM; anything stripped of DRM is presumably pirated content.
...If people will want to pay for that model. Not everybody will - this is absolutely certain. So, there is still some space for physical media being around for the rest.
Children being born these days will probably have parents to teach them that, and will be exposed to past culture, unless civilization fully collapses, and will understand privacy and ownership naturally, as they do not need to see those concepts around to understand them and "want" them.
The presumption with that line of thought is that "people will WANT the album at all" and/or "WANT at any price". These are implicit assumptions you are failing to acknowledge/mention.
And they are NOT generally valid.
For example, I stopped listening to broadcast radio in the 1990s - I've never missed it and I've done without quite happily.
I stopped watch any of the mainstream TV networks in the 2000s - I've never missed it and I've done without quite happily.
I've never used a music streaming service to this day - I've never missed it and I've done without quite happily.
No one piece of media is SO VALUABLE that it's irreplaceable or necessary to have access to. NONE.
I'm not a slave to whatever emotional beast would DEMAND I live crappy music or music only available from streaming. It can always be substituted either with music from other sources or living without it entirely.
If Justine Bieber was wiped from existence, my life would not change one iota. Same goes for pretty much ALL other "artists" today - and that's made easier because most are pure garbage without any musical talent anyway. Want to put up barriers to entry preventing me from getting garbage? OK. Thanks, I guess?
It will turn out like the Saints football tickets - they can't even give them away.
Yes, there will be people who want the album. Or at least the song. For example, people who heard a song in a club and used a music fingerprinting service like Shazam to find it.
authors/creators of content don't exist; content springs fully formed from centers of large corporations, especially if that corporation is named Disney.
who says the government cannot come up with a twisted reasoning of mandatory compliance to serve the unique IP industry which is struggling in the face of harsh pandemic and more seriously the threat imposed by those egregious hackers and thiefs who steal and consume content without paying for it. How dare they! they are killing the entire artist community.
or
" in the face of unprecedented attacks on our domestic soil by foreign alien enemies, we are forced to implement a assailant monitoring programme which i assure you will not be used for any other purpose. the programme is going to be strictly for intended purposes only. That said, while partnering with the industry, we have realized the immense potential to build an inclusive and healthy competitive environment in the market and will help the industry leaders root out evil "
Not the authorities perhaps, but it is already happening in some degree: Windows Defender sending “samples” or unknown binaries to the cloud to analyze them. I am extremely bothered by this and try to disable this “feature” as much as possible. As always with Windows, you have to aggressively tweak system settings to permanently disable the constant reminders “Oops we have detected suboptimal settings, please turn on every privacy invading feature for your convenience”. We can only hope MS doesn’t abuse the samples for other purposes, but given their and other big techs track record, we can assume there are additional parties interested in the submissions.
I am certainly considering it every now and then. Already use it for main desktop usage. And I hear good things about Proton, but I really like ease of usage of Windows for everything gaming related. It somehow reminds me too much of my working job, when trying to figure out how a certain game needs to be started in Linux.
Not all games work but many on Steam do and most run well out of the box. It will only improve as Steam is committed on making Linux the new PC OS for gaming.
What's novel is that the tech reports you to the authorities. Imagine your AV reporting you to the authorities for digital piracy, it's something that RIAA could only dream of back in the day. Now it's becoming a reality.