I see a time in the near future where people begin ridding themselves of all DRM restricted media. It would be comparable to being a vegatarian and vegan.
Ridding yourself of DRM restricted media would be like being a vegatarian. You'd buy analog or public domain. You could still use services like Netflix because you're paying for the service not ownership of the content.
Banning all proprietary content formats and only using Creative Commons media on Open Source formats wuld be like being a vegan.
Being all angry and punk rock about it would be digital sraight edge.
In a distopian future hacker gangs would release wifi viruses that destroy DRM and propriatory format devices, including phones, gaming devices and computers.
Extreme gangs would even attack people they see using devices and launch digital, physical and reputation attacks against the corporations that advance these technologies.
Corporate backed mercenaries on the other side would be just as extreme and possibly worse. They would attack Open Source, attack those that licence their content under creative commons, much like old union bosses. They may even go to the extreme of ordering personal hits against the other side.
Sent from my cellular telephony enabled personal computing device.
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