If you've bought any mmo, or steam/drm infested game you already are a part of the IoT, if you're running windows 10 your PC is literally an IoT device. Your OS is a client-server back ended os which reports home to the mothership.
The IoT ship sailed 23+ years ago with ultima online in 97 an everquest in 99. Any client-server software you don't own is a giant security risk.
>There needs to be an ISO standard that is well thought out and implemented by all the vendors
We don't need any more standards, we need to fix copyright law and get property rights for software. You don't have security risks or the attack surface with local applications. Corporations have done their damnedest to try to kill local apps and move them onto their servers. If we want real security we need to go after microsoft and software companies for trying to force applications online.
You won't have a security crisis if apps aren't constantly opening ports and communicating with remote machines to begin with. The whole idea of having our PC's constantly shuffling data back and forth just so software companies can "prevent piracy" is bullshit, our basic right to privacy and owning the things we buy are being infringed on, on a mass scale.
You're clueless, it is directly relevant, you said "copyright laws are neither moral or immorral" which is a bs statement because every rule (which it is) has political consequences, you need a giant state to declare "some ideas are not sharable". AKA copyright is a cultural construct that evolved in one particular society at a particular point in history, not a natural law.
So no, you don't get the idea of owning ideas is directly itself an attack on freedom itself, aka if you can claim you own ideas you can use violence against others because you believe in that idea. The problem you're not seeing is that it's impossible to enforce property rights for ideas while not infringing on basic human freedoms. Copyright is backdoor to get rid of property rights for the public by associating it with software/technology.
The idea that we just need "good regulation" to stop the abuses, is bs, since the last 200 years of copyright has always seen its power and abuse expanded and not reduced.
So you're the one making disingenuous arguments. Since our culture is literally being irrevocably destroyed and there's no way much culture during this period will be saved because of the lawlessness of the USA and general idiocy of its citizenry.
Except you're wrong, idea's are not rivalrous goods. Imagine if someone copyrighted the alphabet and we had to pay $5 a word. Rent seeking puts a damper on global productivity by allowing people to take information hostage. It can also be used as a tool for censorship. Right now copyright is censoring culture and I'm watching videogame history being destroyed on the PC due to bs copyright and software licensing laws. We should have gotten full property rights transfer for software. It's allowed mass invasion of privacy and theft of software on a mass scale by PC game companies.
You haven't been paying attention to how monopoly rights have been used or abused.
Copyright and intellectual property are monopoly rights, aka things that need a state to enforce, they are entirely fictional and are government intervention in the economy.
>Capitalism isn't really a political system, even though people seem to elevate it to one.
It is you need a giant violent state to create a culture of sophisticated property rights. AKA capitalism requires a state and legal system, it doesn't exist without one. Things like copyright and Intellectual property are pure man made cultural political fictions, they do not exist in the natural animal kingdom.
How is it possible to own large tracts of land the size of small cities or entire provinces without a state/army to enforce it? AKA before populations got big there was plenty of "common" land that wasn't anyones. Property rights are a cultural invention.
No, they are not clueless, they've been stealing software since the late 90's with mmo's.
They wouldn't be celebrating your cluelessness, they are talking about a "revolution", aka a revolution in the publics cluelessness about software ownership.
Why does ANY piece of software need a remote computer in order to function?
Not a conspiracy, UWP games that are cracked stop working on windows update. So they are definitely taking over your machine and monitoring whether you are using "unlicensed" software, that was the whole point of forcing an internet connection, so they could forcibly change files/api's and break any software that had been cracked.
You are oblivious, The last 23 years of software since the rise of the internet has been theft on a mass scale which started with PC games in the 90's, there has been a war on software ownership that started with PC games...
Ultima online, everquest, guild wars 1 and world of warcraft were all just regular RPG's reprogrammed client server to deny the public ownership and when the public fell for it because it is computer illiterate, that lead us to STEAM in 2004. Steam, uplay, origin, are all bids to lock down the PC as a platform and remove control of software from the end user.
We used to get level editors in all AAA games, the last 20 years has seen a giant move towards locked down / stolen games.
The entire software industry is celebrating the publics stupidity and update of "software you don't own nor control".
The latest version of trackmania is being pushed as a "subscription to software you never get". AKA they never give you the game files.
The whole thing is a scam and can only exist in a world of people who are gullible and idiotic.
MS and intel and AMD are forcing new versions of CPU's not to work with old versions of windows like windows 7 / 8 via driver starvation. Nvidia's videocards have only drivers for windows 10, no windows 7/8 drivers at all.
Uhh the same people who fall for the scam that was steam, uplay, mmo's, etc... aka it's irrational to buy software you don't own or control. If anything the modern software landscape is an idiocracy. Windows 10 "requires internet" (wtf?) I mean come on, anything that "requires interent" is a giant red flag. The steam stats prove we live in an idiocracy.
Don't think so? Silicion valley tech companies are over the moon that the public bought into mmo's/drm/f2p mobile gambling games en mass.
They finally are going to close the PC as an open platform, which started with merely renaming PC RPG's in the 90's and calling them "MMO's" then they started applying that fake moniker to every game they wanted to client server to steal them from the public to deny ownership.
Whole industry is looking to setup the internte (aka the world comptuer) to trap software between the public pc's and their servers, so we get incomplete software in the future "requiring login" to remote servers (aka stolen software as a service).
Windows 10 privacy invading, drm defective app model (uwp, encrypted vm's). Making preserving old software using UWP/encryption impossible (aka encrypted files).
The average person in our society both working class and professional is dumb.
I've talked to programmers who've bought overwatch or sent money to quake champions, not realizing that their mtx money told the industry to steal games and client server them. We used to get level editors in every AAA game in the 90's before the game industry and software industry discovered 70% of society is computer illiterate to an insane degree.
The modern videogame and software landscape on the PC is an idiocracy, aka hardware dongled software by way of internet.
So for people to fall for BTC scams on youtube when they fall for all kinds of "regular" corporate scams and are oblivious to the corruption of their own society for instance... is pretty par for the course.
Software is largely enormous margin in an era of increasing drm and encryption because they can delay piracy indefinitely like on mobile with client-server gacha games.
Check out the revenue for mobile, it's insane because it preys on mass stupidity and tech illiteracy.
Either way many segments of software you can be sure are making insane profits like Overwatch, league of legends with selling flags for skins.
The internet has given tech companies 24/7 access to the super rich, the super gullible and super mentally ill.
Think about that for a second, before the internet people with brainless spending habits had no direct access to companies they got their products through intermediaries. The internet is a game changer for software companies because they can trap software inside "the world sized PC" we call the internet.
The internet remember, is the worlds biggest motherboard, and whoever programs the motherboard owns the motherboard. That's how we ended up with steam drm, uplay, origin, etc. We've been getting hacked software and slaughtered on the privacy freedom front because the average consumer is retard level stupid when it comes to technology.
Many software companies are getting away with the crime of the century. I'll see if I can't poke around and find some helpful guides for you to decode corporate speak.
Subscription software is just a way to fleece gullible people, most software before mass internet penetration allowed stealing software (I refuse to call software as a subscription a rational thing for 99% of software).
Is just a way for companies to sell you the same shit repackaged with only minimal effort. You don't seem to grasp the fundamental principle of a corporation is to give you the LEAST possible service for the highest possible price. AKA it's fuck you I got mine.
99% of the time Software as a service preys on gullible people and flaws in your psychology you aren't aware of. Best to stay away.
Piracy actually put pressure on companies to innovate because you could get the complete version for free there was some incentive to improve the product to make it better than the pirate version, as strange as that sounds. Piracy is actually good for competition because most people are honest, if that wasn't the case Microsoft, EA, Valve, etc couldn't have become rich pre-internet where it was trivially easy to pirate everything by just copying the files.
Modern DRM is literally holding files hostage using the internet as a dongle and using encryption.
So no software as a service preys on gullible people to sell you last years with minor tweaks at inflated prices.
They fear AI because they are misprojecting their animal psychology onto something that did not undergo any kind of evolutionary process.
AKA if we build AI it will be "like us" it will reason like a human being would, rather than it being it's own phenomenon.
I think the real fears concern automated killing machines every military on the planet is developing, aka Dystopian robocops that can surreptitiously kill protestors/stop potential revolutions, etc.
It was the days where people owned their own software and DRM had not made it's way into games, since the internet has enabled PC game theft on a massive scale, by valve, ea and activision.
OS/2 was an alternative Operating system oriented towards businesses that could run apps from different operating systems under one unified framework.
>Selling proprietary software for money is a lot less immoral than using free software to sell user data for money
Except you're wrong, it's the fact we never got property rights and software became licensed to begin with. We should be living in a world where we had rights to source code and program ownership from the beginning. You don't seem to get Microsoft and big software companies benefited from 200 years of big media companies lobbying away the public domain and any rights to own works. Copyright was the back door to get rid of property rights from the public.
Software licensing is what lead us to this DRM dystopia, you can't have DRM if you own the bits you buy outright at point of purchase instead of "licensing them".
It's the software licensing model for the public where the public has no right to own the software it buys that's at the root of the madness. Not free software advocates.
The reality is we desperately needs property rights for consumers, I've watched for 20 years as the PC game industry stole PC games by client-server back ending them to take the files hostage on remote PC's...
Software as a service and DRM enabled by lack of property rights for the public is the real enemy of privacy and freedom buddy.
We should have had the right to own software like we own our clothes and houses. We can own our cars, houses and repair them, but we can't do that with software.
So huge swatches of human history are being kept in corporate vaults behind lock and key.
Companies like irdeto are pure scum in trying to game encrypt binaries. Don't get me started on mobile gacha games.
The whole software ecosystem is made on bad american IP law where the software buyer has no rights and all the cards are held by big tech companies.
Don't blame free software advocates. Blame lack of the public having any ownership rights over the software it buys.
We now live in a world where Microsoft can claim they "own" the files on my computer via American IP law magic and I don't really have a right to use my software and computer how I see fit because of bs IP laws written by american corporate lobbyists.
So whole swaths of video game and PC software history are being actively destroyed and done knowingly so.
Microsoft is planning to lock down the PC and, DRM like steam, origin, uplay, MMO's, client-server software is all about the end of freedom on the PC as an open platform.
The IoT ship sailed 23+ years ago with ultima online in 97 an everquest in 99. Any client-server software you don't own is a giant security risk.