[null_ptr]

You can see the remedy attempts already

* push for cloud storage over local storage

* push for locked down devices over general purpose computers

* push for DRM on the open web

* big ISP companies fighting against net neutrality

[msane]

I very much agree. I hope that, capitalism, ironically enough for DRM, is the probably always the solution to overstepped DRM remedies. Regardless of the issue of piracy, which I am not advocating.

For instance there will always be a market for custom computing and "PCs", and so non-locked PCs will (hopefully) always exist in a capitalist environment. That market I think ultimately circumvents any attempt at ubiquitous control of hardware. The same thing is at play with software. And hypothetical new methods of connectivity may be able to circumvent many attempts at central control of the net.

[userbinator]

For instance there will always be a market for custom computing and "PCs", and so non-locked PCs will (hopefully) always exist in a capitalist environment.

Unfortunately, that market is slowly becoming the minority, and because those "more free" devices may have limitations that make them incompatible with a lot of proprietary content (which is the majority) and circumventing those limitations could be illegal and difficult, there will be fewer users of them.

Reminds me of this https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/right-to-read.html and the old saying "If you outlaw freedom, only outlaws will have freedom."

[w1ntermute]

Given the move away from the carrier-subsidized model for mobile devices, I am optimistic about the technical future of general purpose mobile computing. What I am not optimistic about is the ability to seamlessly access content across devices from data that is privately stored in the cloud, mainly because not enough people would be willing to pay for/fund the development of such a service/piece of software to make it worth developing.