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They're putting DRM in trains, now
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I wonder if it would just go too far at some point. I already gave up on streaming services because there's just too many of them and I don't want to watch like 90% of the content on any of them, I'm not subscribing to a service to watch one or two shows. The inconvenience of the system has outweighed what I actually get out of it. I've heard quite a few people doing similar things as well.
I'm guessing this is why they're moving onto businesses. I can stop watching Netflix, A freight company can't afford to have all their trains bricked. It's gunboat diplomacy, or gunboat economics I guess. I expect it will become openly more blatant until we end up having companies with their own private armies to ensure their DRM is "protected" and can't be messed with. Not sure if it'll be more cyberpunk or East India company style though.