People consciously deciding they want to trade ownership for convenience is fine with me- I have done so for movies/ shows, while for music and games I like to have the option to choose. But keep some sense for maintaining basic rights while you do so. Even if you don’t want physical media for yourself, I find it hard to understand why people are so eagerly rooting for the business interest side of things here. And now we are even talking about the console itself. If someone does something illegal, we have a criminal justice system and legal procedures to deal with that. Nintendo can report me to the police or outright sue me if I pirate their games, that’s fine. But to even go there where they (or any other company) should have the option to remote-destroy my property? If, in some examples brought up, you legally bought a weapon and then illegally hurt someone (which, by the way, is a way more serious act than hacking your console) it’s a police matter, it’s not the weapon manufacturer or the vendor that show up at your house and confiscate or destroy the weapon. And deciding the consequences is a court matter, it’s not the victim of the crime deciding the punishment for the offender. It’s your rights you are talking about here, and people saying “that’s o.k. because it is in their best interest” - yeah, THEIR best interest.
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