We are Huxleying ourselves into the full Orwell.

[xoxoxoBruce]

Originally Posted by Clodfobble

...The technically-inclined will always find a way around stuff. The corporations just have to make their system easy enough, and hard enough to circumvent, for the average person not to bother.

...all interfaces built in HTML5 (which will be pretty much everything) will be opaque to users, and it will be illegal to report on security flaws in them (because reporting a security flaw in DRM exposes you to risk of prosecution for making a circumvention device)...

Yes, the techies will work around, but with the sharing of that information, being illegal, it won't be on nerd sites, it will have to be completely under the table. Other than getting the techies laid more, I see no good coming from it.