That happened about 15 years ago when Microsoft made the decision to make computing media-friendly and embrace DRM.
A better outcome would have been to divide computing into business computing and consumer computing, and only allow consumer computing to have components that the owner of the hardware can't control.
Now almost every computing device contains parts not under the owner's control. Even trying to see what those parts are doing could constitute a crime. A network of machines you don't control isn't going to be an engine for positive change.
A better outcome would have been to divide computing into business computing and consumer computing, and only allow consumer computing to have components that the owner of the hardware can't control.
Now almost every computing device contains parts not under the owner's control. Even trying to see what those parts are doing could constitute a crime. A network of machines you don't control isn't going to be an engine for positive change.