Re: Ka Blam! There goes the other foot.
And this data slurping "it's not your machine" stuff started a while back...
The first inkling I recall, that things were going bad, was when Microsoft infested Windows XP with Windows Genuine Advantage DRM via Windows Update. (I never trusted them again.) The next big milestone was video DRM baked-in to Vista. After that it's hard to pick out individual instances.
Clearly, the moral decay is accelerating on some kind of exponential curve.