Natanael

Does it make a difference? They still need to use Apple accounts and spoof real devices (serial numbers, etc, I'm guessing)

All they need to do is look for which Apple devices are being used as proxies and blacklist them

RCS on Android defaults to E2E encryption now since some year back, and Signal has been around for a long time now

Then you won't need Apple hardware to use it

They get that from the carrier already

Detroit Become Human

My first thought is you can embedd this inside buildings rather trivially

HDDVD should have won for that alone

They're not offering true purchases, they're offering one time payment leases - and they should be forced to market them as such if they're not willing to guarantee perpetual access.

Yeah you have to look at lifetime cost

The points are measured in gigabytes of storage on your hard drive

Or IPFS. The issue in this context is that bittorrent would treat each version as a unique collection of files and you can't combine seeding of redundant files. IPFS has much better means to handle updates.