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Re: Does "cloud" mean the end of piracy?

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groovee@cyberdude.com wrote on 17 Jul 2019 in comp.lang.javascript:

> OK, so I've been hearing that they're gonna shift everything to the
> "cloud" (I don't really understand that word), and recent news
> apparently, is that this now includes Microsoft Office!! So - what I'd
> like to know is, does this mean the end of piracy? Like, guaranteed? IS
> it possible to crack something running in the browser, or is it simply
> impossible? WebAssembly, from the *name* of it, sounds like it could
> accomplish this (I really love the "assembly" part :) ) - WILL it?? 
> 
> ..and *another* thing apparently is, that apps in a browser can now be
> "streamed" - for example 3D apps can be running on a remote server and
> use IT'S CPU instead of your local one - thus, again, exterminating
> piracy (and this would be simply IMPOSSIBLE to get around). How is THIS
> pulled off, exactly? Is this like, VNC, running in a browser or
> something? :) 

Off Topic, unrelated to the Javascript Language.

I deplore it, when people [in general] want to know something "exactly",
and at the same time claim to know that things are "simply impossible".

Clouds prevented me to see the eclips last night, btw.

-- 
Evertjan.
The Netherlands.
(Please change the x'es to dots in my emailaddress)

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Does "cloud" mean the end of piracy? groovee@cyberdude.com - 2019-07-17 01:08 -0700
  Re: Does "cloud" mean the end of piracy? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2019-07-17 12:36 +0200
  Re: Does "cloud" mean the end of piracy? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2019-07-17 19:10 +0200
    Re: Does "cloud" mean the end of piracy? groovee@cyberdude.com - 2019-07-17 10:28 -0700
      Re: Does "cloud" mean the end of piracy? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2019-07-18 16:16 +0200
        Re: Does "cloud" mean the end of piracy? groovee@cyberdude.com - 2019-07-20 00:39 -0700
          Re: Does "cloud" mean the end of piracy? "R.Wieser" <address@not.available> - 2019-07-20 23:11 +0200
          Re: Does "cloud" mean the end of piracy? John-Paul Stewart <jpstewart@sympatico.ca> - 2019-07-20 22:17 -0400
            Re: Does "cloud" mean the end of piracy? groovee@cyberdude.com - 2019-07-24 01:01 -0700
          Re: Does "cloud" mean the end of piracy? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2019-07-23 07:49 +0200
  Re: Does "cloud" mean the end of piracy? "Evertjan." <exxjxw.hannivoort@inter.nl.net> - 2019-07-18 10:26 +0200
  Re: Does "cloud" mean the end of piracy? Soviet_Mario <SovietMario@CCCP.MIR> - 2019-07-21 14:29 +0200

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