Pardon my cynicism but there is no stopping this. Money talks, money is power, activists lack both the power and organisation of large corporations.<p>I foresee a near future where only a few in society will be able to use the internet safely. There will be subcultures, small segregated pockets of people who refuse the big corporate alternatives on the internet.<p>We're already seeing this today, think about it. I'm speaking from a Swedish perspective but when piracy on the www was relatively new in the 90s you'd go to "your guy" with the CD-burners and they would give you the movie, game, software you needed.<p>Only a few people knew enough to keep up with the trends, the BBS, the FTP sites and the newsgroups. Though there was little to none legal problems there were instead technical problems to piracy.<p>Then we had the piracy golden age, from about 98 to 2015, or today even. When everyone and their grandmother pirated. It was so easy, and torrents made it even easier.<p>But now the biggest ISP in Sweden has started handing over personal information of their subscribers to foreign companies who are sending monetary demands to the customers if their IP is found on trackers. So instead of being taken to court, just pay the money right?<p>That's just the start, it will only get worse because corporations have all the power.<p>But let's look at another example less sinister than piracy. Let's look at simple tracking and web security. Even there you have to be relatively computer savvy to keep up with the new tools, Adblock is out, uBlock is in, Noscript author is under fire, alternatives are often hosted on github.<p>See what I mean? Safe web browsing is being restricted to a few people savvy enough, or interested enough, to keep up with that scene.<p>So already, today we're seeing what the future holds for the internet. Any privacy conscious, safe browsing will be pushed to minority subcultures using different platforms, tools and networks than the rest of the population.<p>The internet will be just another TV or Radio, with indie broadcasters fighting to remain free in a vast sea of big corporations.<p>We'll most definitely always have open source browsers but the question is how well these browsers will support the new DRM internet that I foresee in our futures.<p>So pardon my cynicism when I see no positive outcome for DRM on the web. I see instead a majority of content under DRM protection, some of it being copied by a small minority in society and spread through other smaller networks of people who refuse the mainstream web standards.<p>How this is achieved is just a technicality. It is inevitable because there's money in it and as long as there's money in it corporations will pour money into lobbying to change the rules in their favor.