Most modern tech "innovations" are done specifically to shrink the "unregulated market" (i.e. people who pirate, circumvent advertising, or otherwise detach themselves from paying subscription fees).
Which is why games force you to download the latest updates and break modding architecture. Why is why TVs went from having native, built-in VCRs and DVRs to encrypted hard drives and eventually nothing at all. Which is why car dealer options went from being physical things you paid for at the dealer to shit that's already in the car but you have to pay a subscription to use.
If there's one type of person capitalists and commies hate with roughly the same amount of ire, it's the privateer.
Most modern tech "innovations" are done specifically to shrink the "unregulated market" (i.e. people who pirate, circumvent advertising, or otherwise detach themselves from paying subscription fees).
Which is why games force you to download the latest updates and break modding architecture. Why is why TVs went from having native, built-in VCRs and DVRs to encrypted hard drives and eventually nothing at all. Which is why car dealer options went from being physical things you paid for at the dealer to shit that's already in the car but you have to pay a subscription to use.
If there's one type of person capitalists and commies hate with roughly the same amount of ire, it's the privateer.