On 11/14/2013 11:51 AM, Moe DeLoughan wrote:
No more individual ownership . . . the corporations will own all:

You can't buy a battery for the new Renault Zoe. Instead, you have to
rent it. And if you stop making payments, the battery's DRM will prevent
you from recharging it. It's part of a larger product strategy through
which the Zoe collects huge amounts of data on your driving and ships it
all back to the manufacturer.

Just what the world needed: a car you're not allowed to own, and which
you can't use anymore if you lose your job and can't pay the monthly
battery rental fee. And if Renault's battery provider goes out of
business, your Renault is bricked.
http://boingboing.net/2013/11/13/ren...kable-car.html

More at
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/1...onsumers-crazy

That approach is more representative of Capitalism that it is of Communism.

Don