https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/7kz9zg/the-rise-of-skywalker-is-a-preview-of-our-drm-fueled-dystopian-futur

This post contains spoilers for Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker

Emperor Palpatine is back with a fleet of planet-killing Star Destroyers, the masses are scared to fight the Final Order, and all the last glimmer of hope for the rebellion is nearly stamped out by … overbearing DRM? The Rise of Skywalker is an allegory for the dystopian nightmare we are quickly hurtling toward, one in which we don’t own our droids (or any of our other stuff stuff), their utility hampered by arbitrary decisions and software locks by big corporations who don’t want us to repair our things.