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In 2035, your hard drive will have firmware with built-in CSAM filtering, which - after a legal battle in the high court - will get hijacked for copyright enforcement.

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If you have the physical hardware, there will be people able to produce their own firmware that disables built in filtering, or at least, disables the internet connecting that reports said filtering. You'll have a server that is disconnected from the internet with all your DRM free content.

They would have to outlaw personal computing, and not allow you to build your own servers with no firmware-enforced filtering, which given the current direction, is not particularly farfetched, but at that point battle is lost anyway and your DVD rips are the least of your problems.

RoHS and lead-free solder insures that the relatively open hardware we have today won’t function in the future, post-personal computing being outlawed. I don’t think it’s a vast conspiracy, but rather a happy accident.

Guess I'll be relegated to living in a cabin in the woods if we ever get to that point...

That’s eerie. I say almost exactly the same thing. I don’t know if I feel fortunate to have lived thru the period of people having access to personal computers that they actually owned or sad because I will know the pain of having had it.

Yea I feel that. I honestly think that the only reason my goals aren't to just buy a piece of land in rural Canada and live life in peace is because it's not the lifestyle my girlfriend wants. That being said, we still want rural living, just not as extreme as I sometimes dream about

…and will pick up the hobby of making ingenous mail bombs?

Probably not, although I did used to be a chemist...

>” I'll be relegated to living in a cabin in the woods”

Welcome to my Ted Talk…

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