[Lammy]

A games console provided a platform where they could more effectively argue that “their” works “““needed””” to be protected so they could farm us (people who want to run their own code on hardware they purchased) for digital-jail technologies which would never otherwise have reason to exist. Then those technologies can metastasize fully-formed over to general-purpose computing in a way that's harder to argue against. They learned with Clipper and Palladium that trying to develop jail tech on PC would be vehemently opposed.

[lyu07282]

The opposition was pointless though, like everything has TPM/IME/etc. nowadays so we lost that war awhile ago. I don't see how consoles helped them win that war though.

[RGamma]

When everything is locked down for good I'll go back to physical books. Vaporware games and media are not worth preserving anyway. And the games and media I do have free from prison can entertain me for a very long time.

Another possible (even worse) future could be cloudification of everything. Enjoy your thin client.

Of course software is bigger than entertainment which might represent a problem. We're increasingly societally locked into this digital shit.