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I can't sign it because I'm in the US..... unfortunately..... but it's in Overdrive right now.

Given the US is ran by the New Fuhrer? I could see this being used against criticism of leadership or anything else resembling free will and not just piracy. I also find it sad that the day the US will probably die as a free country and turn into a dictatorship, is the same day it gained its independence in the first place.

If it's upheld, that's the precursor to full-blown info blackouts, just cut off internet to anyone 'accused' of wrongspeak against the powers that be, which is basically everyone.

This also sounds like SOPA reborn.

And how long before that applies to citizens too? If Free Speech and Free Expression on the whole aren't dead yet, they've got a foot in the grave

That's exactly what Google is trying to do on YT with Veo 3 and the 'AI slop' button.

Good luck breaking down people's doors for scanning their own physical books for their personal use when analog media has no DRM and can't phone home, and paper books are an analog medium.

That would be like kicking down people's doors for needle-dropping their LPs to FLAC for their own use and to preserve the physical records as vinyl wears down every time it's played back.

Plus physical media on consoles is effectively worthless now, even on the Switch 2 with most of its library set to be downloads with literal license dongles ala the Game-Key Card which is targeted at third parties as a cheaper option than putting the whole game on a cart.

That Game-Key Card format will effectively render most of the Switch 2 library impossible to emulate assuming they need online access to run.

And even on PC, there's nothing stopping publishers from getting smart and using kernel-level anticheat as a DRM substitute for single-player games, EA already set a precedent internally within their operations for doing that with EAAC on the latest WRC installment, for example.

As for the Switch 2, I wouldn't put it above Nintendo to completely axe the cart slot for the Switch 3, if there even is a Switch 3 and the games industry doesn't collapse again before that has a chance to happen, and make it a digital-exclusive console.

Still gonna need a large screen somehow unless you watch all your stuff at the desk or through a laptop.

Too bad this probably still won't drive people to other platforms.

Mine ain't, I'm using an ancient dumb TV.

If you haven't ditched Reddit already, do it!

They don't host anything, they're just an alternate front-end that lets you download stuff.