I remember Godzilla vs King Kong from 1962. Godzilla breathed fire on King Kong, and King Kong didn’t like that so he reached down, ripped up a tree, and stuffed it root ball first down Godzilla’s throat.
I remember as a kid seeing that on TV and getting upset and shutting it off when Godzilla started losing. I later found out that the US version edited the original Japanese one in which Godzilla won. Typical US propaganda!
Also, King Kong is like 50 feet tall and Godzilla is 300 feet, so he’d just step on him and move on.
The next thing after DRM will be ARM (Attention Rights Management). The camera will be used to verify that you are paying attention to the ads, otherwise no content for you.
I completely agree. That being said, it could be pretty easily argued that they want to save on server costs or something about model training accuracy on your watch history degrading due to you not deciding what to watch
Not trying to make it sound like it wouldn’t be a really bad thing but it would be pretty easy to circumvent. Just emulate a webcam that only shows a static image of some random dude staring into the camera. That one image of Linus would be perfect for that.
Unless they check to see if the image is moving, which in the basic case would be easy to do. Of course, that can be defeated by substituting the still image with a short loop (presumably edited to eliminate any discontinuities), but that just escalates the arms race. Eventually, using an ad-funded website would involve volunteering one of your GPU cores to run a machine-learning model for authenticating camera video, and that’s just the price, along with accepting tracking cookies and disabling ad blockers.
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