PlayStation is a walled garden and Sony recently pulled a collection of digital movies from people’s accounts. Valve might enshitrify someday but they haven’t yet. Digital rights on Sony are already being abused.

I don’t think it is wrong to be concerned about this. We live in an era of mass surveillance and control. This is just one more tool that governments and corporations can use to control and surveil.

It starts as a DOB field but then escalates to an always online requirement where your full identity is passed along to every app and website. We’ve seen this happen across mobile phones and social media; I don’t want it on my PC.