Pretty sure DRM is meant to drive people to warezzzz where the games are free and DRM-less.

It's like the equivalent of the serial killer watching from behind the police tape in Dexter/Other Cop show - they're compelled to do bad things and want to be stopped.

Time to update yourself: now they're called Influenza`s.

ALERT: Unexploited enjoyment may be about to occur - send black helicopters to recover royalties.

tldr:
"we've noticed that there's pushback against letting us extract your soul and monetise it - consider this an appeal to your ego: it's a good thing for you to teach our AIs - in fact, you should pay us! Win-Win (both for us :-)"

I was with you until:

For that, we turn to PR people

Yep, we're a bank - let's ensure our maximum password length is lower than the minimum length where something important is being protected like social media history.

Which will win in the race to destroy humanity:
[ ] AI-controlled-robot uprising
[ ] Side-effects of gene editing
[ ] Global warming
[ ] Investor-greed
[ ] Global war triggered by Israel

Just wondering which stock to invest in :P

The independent have taken ad-farming to new levels - were they bought by Yahoo?

We've almost reached the point where satire === reality so don't worry about it :-)

companies using neurotechnology to subliminally market to people during their dreams

Ad-blocker (PRO) for dreams in 3,2,1.

I suppose having the capacity for lucid dreaming will allow a section of society to resist buying stuff in dream ads.

Perhaps we can have an app which projects dream-sheep jumping over a fence as a sleep-aid?

What mechanism do you propose to allow them to feed on ordinary people if the market is detached?

The pop from this bubble is going to destroy the world or perhaps the efforts to stop the bubble from popping (and thus avoid the destruction of the world) will destroy the world.

It's too-big-to-fail as a core business strategy.

First-task for the newly-born AIs? Make variations of existing scams to maximize believability, virality and deniability.

Black Mirror are like "What do we do now? Everything we can think of, Trump's already doing?"