Removing DRM is all fun and games until single player titles start requiring constant internet access in the future.

Denuvo requires internet access. It's been cracked anyway.

Do you know about this tool called Ghidra? It makes most programs open source. Not the ones with DRM, though.

The next step they want to take is not have you use your own hardware at all and just stream it to you, so you don't even have a copy.

Castles made of sand slips into the sea, eventually

Sounds like a very wise decision to me. I found found out on my phone that the google photos application uploaded everything in my gallery to their servers without asking me, regardless that I had explicitly disabled all backup to my google accounts on the settings of the phone. I only figured it out when they sent me emails saying that my storage was full.

Ooooh, don't get me started how mad it makes me! I am paranoid (or just lucky) enough that I didn't yet had it happen to me, but my wife's phone had done it four times in the last year. Each time I check and double check that all "backups" are turned off, and each time it somehow pops back.

So, Google "backs up" a 128Gb worth of photos on the phone onto 15Gb free storage combined with Gmail and who knows what, completely clogs it (as if it couldn't be predicted) and then has audacity to suggest paying for "extra storage". There is no way in online UI to just delete the whole "backup". And the cherry on top: when you finally get to delete some there is a fine-print - "the selected photos will be deleted from all synced devices". Well, I guess I must be thankful that they at least show this warning. This is what passes as "backup" in Google's parlance these days.

I'm interested in seeing the data.

Resistance againt Linky was legit, and avoided important breaches to privacy.

As a nerd, I get you think it was the main problem.

But most people didn't care about that.

The main contenders were:

- Linky calculates my electricity bill badly. It was in fact more accurate, but sometimes it meant a raise in bill.

- Linky emits dangerous radiation or magnetism. That was, of course, a total hoax.

- Linky didn't allow me to cheat on my bill anymore (lots of people around me were hacking their meter to pay less).

- Linky is forced on us by Big Electricity. So it's bad.

The privacy thing is legit, but all those people had full facebook accounts, most of them had full sync on their smartphone, use chrome without an adblock, and so on.

Only geeks like us really care about the privacy aspect.

On the other hand, it's a greener solution:

- Less people in cars to check meters.

- Live load balancing on the power grid.

- Clear consumption stats so that you can optimize your own bill.

So the linky, which eventually got into most homes, is deployed with success.

But it took so many years because of the pushback.

Eventually, if the pushback would have been just about the privacy, we could have focused on fixing that and would have had a cheaper, faster deployment, with privacy.

We had the worst: expensive, long deployment, and the privacy invasion is still in place.