Eugen Leitl wrote...
Online activation of software is already quite widespread, so it seems customers are willing to accept restriction to ownership and use.
Well, that's an interesting phenomenon. In industrialized nations where the price of software is fairly low compared to the wages, people seem somewhat willing to pay. At least, we don't see ticket sales for big movies going down at all. So it could be that people will eventually voluntarily release control, as long as the consequences (ie, prices) aren't too high. On the other hand, the whole P2P phenomenon is not happening simply because people don't want to pay. Stupid industry execs will probably continue churning out the same stupid shit they always did and P2Pers will find some way around their "protection" if needs be.
