All it will take is one gigantic asshole to start and if the product is useful enough that’s it, people will buy it and every company under the sun will copy.
Goodbye ownership of the things you buy, it will be the videogame distribution model of “you paid for a temporary license to use the product. You did not buy anything.”
I can totally see “you’ve exceeded the license agreement for free usage, now log in to your account and pay for the premium package wrench plan for $99.99/month.” Hell printers are already disabling usage if you don’t have a credit card on file with them even though you bought the damn thing…
Thankfully hobbiest electronics and 3d printing can replicate a lot of those products without the dark patterns for those patient / saavy enough to build or sell them.
And in the case of a Wrench… You wouldn’t copy (mold /foundry) a wrench would you?
This is no joke, 100% going to be the future.
All it will take is one gigantic asshole to start and if the product is useful enough that’s it, people will buy it and every company under the sun will copy.
Goodbye ownership of the things you buy, it will be the videogame distribution model of “you paid for a temporary license to use the product. You did not buy anything.”
I can totally see “you’ve exceeded the license agreement for free usage, now log in to your account and pay for the premium package wrench plan for $99.99/month.” Hell printers are already disabling usage if you don’t have a credit card on file with them even though you bought the damn thing…
Thankfully hobbiest electronics and 3d printing can replicate a lot of those products without the dark patterns for those patient / saavy enough to build or sell them.
And in the case of a Wrench… You wouldn’t copy (mold /foundry) a wrench would you?