| Vive la resistance! If this happens, there will, no doubt, be a run on any old hardware and software. People will start setting up private LANs and WANs. Of course, this will probably be considered illegal as it would be deemed subversive or, perhaps, even terrorism.
Will there be an underground? What would it be good for? People using illicit emails? Perhaps with IPv6, any non-Palladium traffic will automatically be given lowest possible priority. Assuming, of course, that IPv6 isn't scrapped as others have suggested might happen.
So what happens when every common device is online? Will your refrigerator stop working if you refuse to upgrade to Windows XP3? What about the locks on your home - will you find yourself forcibly locked out/in if you badmouth the politicians that Microsoft owns? Are they going to lock you up for using (or even worse, creating!) GPL and Copyleft software? |
