On: The End of Headphone Jacks, the Rise of DRM

[mhurron]

And the only reason any of that works is because people accept it and pay for the privilege.

Don't like the situation, don't buy the service offering it. It turns out, society doesn't really care about these things.

[TeMPOraL → mhurron]

It's not that society doesn't care, it's that people don't spend time figuring out all the distant-future implications of their choices. While you can't boil a literal live frog by turning up the heat slowly, this principle works extremely well on the free market.