Look here?

Not burn. But definitely see a lack of the violent type of cartoons that were much more prevalent in the 60's and 70's now. I think someone figured out exposing our children to such blatant acts of violence teaches children that violence is ok. And now you don't see all those old Looney Tunes and Tom and Jerry cartoons in easy to find places for children. I mean really, what did you expect to come out of showing children senseless acts of violence, even by animated characters on each other? As an adult, I find this stuff still rather hilarious, but I'm an adult now and can easily discern it's just for fun. A child? Influential. They don't know better yet.

Maybe they didn't invent it, but the sure as heck made it socially acceptable in the minds of the masses.

I'm with you on this. Seems to me the PC is on it's way out. For the common consumer, seems like tablets and smartphones are giving the majority of people what they want, without the big bulky PC and all its trimmings. PC's are gunna be a business tool and enthusiast thing again. Fine by me, might get the big corps out of the PC business and let us nerds have our way with them again.

Unfortunately, this simply isn't true. THE PC ITSELF is becoming increasingly irrelevant as tablets and smartphones take over. I wouldn't be surprised if a lot of people are ditching their PC's for Android tablets and smartphones. They're getting that good folks. And if the PC becomes irrelevant, so does Windows.

I think the DRM industry just has some pretty good sales people who are fleecing the entertainment industry. Fear works wonders for sales! "We can stop people from stealing your stuff, really, it does work this time, promise!" Mmhmm. Sadly, the entertainment industry is still listening to these snakeoil peddlers.

Yeah, except, their perception would have to be completely out of touch with reality. It's already shown people will happily pay for content if it's accessible. Proof of this is all over the place. People don't mind paying if there's a reasonably easy way to do so. Frankly in my case, I pay for any content I desire, unless I can't FIND A WAY to pay, then I have to resort to other means if the content I want is inaccessible by legitimate means.

Though I don't think 'out of touch with reality' is impossible, just seems.. improbable. Entertainment industry can't be that ignorant can they?

I'm really really starting to think the DRM industry is the ones pushing this crap forward. It just doesn't even make sense to anyone but the people peddling this junk. Consumers don't want it. Producers want to sell stuff, so they shouldn't want it either, because consumers don't.

They might become necessary to do any real GP computing in the near future!

Here's hoping mine doesn't let the magic smoke out any time soon.

A comma between 'privacy' and 'bad' would have done wonders for clarifying the headline. It's kind of confusing.

The sword of internet censorship cuts both ways. If you don't want to be censored yourself, then you shouldn't be censoring others. Are your ideologies so weak they cannot stand on their own merits? Are you so afraid of opposing views, that governments feel the need to censor terrorist publications on the internet? I'm no fan of terrorism, or ISIS or any extreme views, but personally, I think they have just as much right to spew their hatred of us as we have to spew our hatred of them. Keep the net freely accessible to all, even those you don't like.

FTFY.