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This isn't just Google. The whole hardware industry is moving towards the Digital Lockdown. This idea has been around, at least, since the early 2000s, but the people who were talking about it, of course, got shouted down as conspiracy theorists.

And as far too often, the "conspiracy theorists" were right, but nobody cares about ever thinking about that, because nobody seems to be actually able to think about things anymore, unless the thoughts are breast-fed.

We're heading towards a reality, where copypasting from a website is going to cost you money if the license requires you to do so. Looking at it, considering the status quo of technology, almost everything required for a "trusted" environment is already present in consumer-hardware.

We have hypervisors, virtualization, containerization. Encryption/Decryption of data in RAM/CPU in real-time is coming eventually. Blockchain technology makes verification of digital ownership secure and easy. AI will make it stupidly easy for corporations to make sure that everyone complies and I will be everywhere within the next few years.

A glimpse of this reality can be seen in NovaQuark's "Dual Universe", where everything is behind DRM. A "metaverse" company for a reason, I guess.