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A lot of people said the same things about DRM and many other predictions that turned out to be true.


This is one of the most ludicrous non sequiturs I've ever heard. DRM exists, therefore any minute now it's going to be illegal to charge your phone using power from fossil fuels? What thru-line of logic is this?

(Also, your basic claim is false. Who ever said DRM was never going to exist? That would have been an absurd claim to make at any time. Long before personal computers or the internet, the music industry was already trying to make cassette tapes illegal because they facilitated home recording. It was a no-brainer that they would attempt to extend this same control into the digital realm)


No one ever said that about DRM. There has been analog right protections for media sense Macrovision in the 80s


And how many predictions turned out to be false?




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