Well.. Plenty of cars are actually becoming a rideable PC where “ride” is just an option too. This is one of this things where I can’t decide, is it more sad, scary or stupid.

[–] 0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml 12 points 1 year ago (1 children)

It's moneeeyy. That's all there is to it, money. They finally have an easy way to control what you can or can't do with the things that (at least on paper) you own.

I just knew this was gonna happen... I warned about these things ever since music/movie subscriptions became a thing. You don't own a copy of what you (allegidly) bought, thus, it's not yours.

Now, you do own the thing... at least on paper, but you can't do much with it unless you pay extra cash to the one who sold it to you, so it can... you know, do the things it's supposed to do. It's basically extortion, no matter how you slice it. It's malware, period.

[–] Rentlar@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Money, it's a crime. Share it fairly but don't take a slice of my pie.

[–] 0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml 2 points 1 year ago

If it's easy enough to actually steal, everyone does it. It's human nature, we're greedy by nature.

[–] grue@lemmy.ml 6 points 1 year ago

This is one of this things where I can’t decide, is it more sad, scary or stupid.

It's criminal. Locking up capabilities of hardware you already bought and trying to extract rents for them is literally no different than a mafia protection racket. These car company execs deserve to go go prison for racketeering.

[–] Tom_bishop@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Next, your artificial heart, watch 60sec ads or it will stop ticking in the next 1 hr

[–] 0x4E4F@lemmy.fmhy.ml 4 points 1 year ago

We might be laughing about this now, but I bet someone already is working on something like this.

[–] Kecessa@sh.itjust.works 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Did it come to PC or Xbox first?

[–] Saneless@lemmy.world 5 points 1 year ago

Well, if you count AOL, PC