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    1 year ago

    Welcome to the world of digital subscriptions boys. It used to be a PC only thing… not any more.

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      171 year ago

      Well… Plenty of cars are actually becoming a rideable PC where “ride” is just an option too. This is one of this things where I can’t decide, is it more sad, scary or stupid.

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        121 year ago

        It’s moneeeyy. That’s all there is to it, money. They finally have an easy way to control what you can or can’t do with the things that (at least on paper) you own.

        I just knew this was gonna happen… I warned about these things ever since music/movie subscriptions became a thing. You don’t own a copy of what you (allegidly) bought, thus, it’s not yours.

        Now, you do own the thing… at least on paper, but you can’t do much with it unless you pay extra cash to the one who sold it to you, so it can… you know, do the things it’s supposed to do. It’s basically extortion, no matter how you slice it. It’s malware, period.

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        61 year ago

        This is one of this things where I can’t decide, is it more sad, scary or stupid.

        It’s criminal. Locking up capabilities of hardware you already bought and trying to extract rents for them is literally no different than a mafia protection racket. These car company execs deserve to go go prison for racketeering.

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      81 year ago

      Next, your artificial heart, watch 60sec ads or it will stop ticking in the next 1 hr

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        41 year ago

        We might be laughing about this now, but I bet someone already is working on something like this.

      • @Saneless
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        51 year ago

        Well, if you count AOL, PC