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petersuber @[email protected] · 2026-01-07 · 15:23 UTC

Excellent argument from @pluralistic.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition

"Thanks to Trump's incontinent belligerence, we are on the cusp of a 'Post-American Internet,' a new digital nervous system for the 21st century. An internet that we can build without worrying about America's demands and priorities…The US trade representative has forced every one of its trading partners to adopt #anticircumvention law, to facilitate the extraction of their own people's data and money by American firms…But there's a…response… that's just sitting there, begging to be tried: what about repealing anticircumvention law?"

#Copyright #DRM #RightToRepair #TPM #USLaw #USPol #USPolitics #USTR

#copyright #drm #righttorepair #tpm #ustr #anticircumvention

Miguel Afonso Caetano @[email protected] · 2025-10-17 · 03:37 UTC

"So why did America's trading partners agree to anticircumvention law? Well, that was down to the tender ministrations of the US trade rep. Countries that didn't pass anticircumvention were threatened with US tariffs.

I used to occasionally guest-lecture at an international relations grad program at the Central European University in Budapest, and one summer, I had a student who had served as the information minister to a Central American country while the US was negotiating the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA). This student described getting a phone call from their country's chief negotiator who said, "I know you told me not to budge on anticircumvention, but the USTR tells me that if we don't give them this, they will block our agricultural exports. I'm sorry." Country by country, the world fell into line.

When someone tells you, "You'd better do what I say or I'm going to burn your house down," and then they burn your house down, you'd be an absolute sucker if you kept up your part of the bargain.

I find it absolutely bizarre that the USTR spent decades racing around the world, getting every country on earth to sign up to "America First" policies by threatening them with tariffs, and then Trump actually imposed the tariffs anyway, which has opened up the space for every country to get rid of those America First policies."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/10/15/freedom-of-movement/#data-dieselgate

#Eurostack #Anticircumvention #Copyright #USA #Trump #Tariffs #DigitalSovereignty #USTR

#eurostack #anticircumvention #copyright #usa #trump #tariffs

C. @[email protected] · 2025-05-01 · 00:31 UTC

@caitp

Tough to forbid it - but Canada could remove the DRM anti-circumvention parts of our copyright law that were added solely to satisfy the USA and its copyright monopolists.

Then Canadian companies could make, and you could buy and use, a teeny little HDCP-stripper box so every TV would work with any device.

#DRM #circumvention #AntiCircumvention #copyright #DMCA

#drm #circumvention #anticircumvention #copyright #dmca

C. @[email protected] · 2025-02-27 · 03:06 UTC

Cory Doctorow's (@pluralistic) blog post for today is a speech he gave last night at the University of Toronto, the annual Ursula Franklin Lecture at Innis College.

It's worth reading:

https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/

It connects the dots between anti-circumvention copyright laws like the USA's Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (and the Canadian copycat legislation) and the enshittification that ensues when Big Tech does ... well, practically anything. There's a specific example he uses that is horrifying. He also shows exactly how Big Tech has escaped what he identifies as the usual four factors for keeping the worst instincts of companies in check.

I agree with him that we should annul the anti-circumvention law on the books, and would go further in saying that we should explicitly enshrine in law the rights to alter, repair, remove etc. any functionality of products and services that we choose to use. I was one of the original 6,000 Canadians who submitted comments warning against the implementation of these restrictions to our government at the time, and my feelings in support of this are stronger than ever.

Give it a read.

Attached image: I think this is probably overdue.

#CoryDoctorow #DMCA #circumvention #AntiCircumvention #DRM #enshittification #e14n #speech #UniversityOfToronto #InnisCollege #DigitalLock #RightToRepair #BigTech #Google #Facebook #Amazon #Microsoft #Canada #tech #software

#corydoctorow #dmca #circumvention #anticircumvention #drm #enshittification

C. @[email protected] · 2023-12-10 · 04:29 UTC

@riley

> As for the "illegal" clones seized on import, I believe these are typically taken under
> patent law and/or trademark law, not DMCA.

Nope; anti-circumvention provisions of the DMCA are used to seize imports all the time in the USA.
https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-border-seizures-of-dmca-circumvention-devices-surges-180309/

#circumvent #circumvention #AntiCircumvention #DMCA #copyright #FairUse

#circumvent #circumvention #anticircumvention #dmca #copyright #fairuse

petersuber @[email protected] · 2023-11-30 · 16:11 UTC

This new #EFF (@eff) brief has the important goal of striking down the #DMCA #anticircumvention clause in the name of #FairUse and #FreeSpeech.
https://www.eff.org/press/releases/licensing-scheme-fair-uses-and-other-speech-violates-first-amendment-eff-argues

But the principle that "Pseudo-#IP Rules Shouldn't Block Free Speech" has the nice side effect of highlighting what's wrong with this otherwise unrelated effort:

"Jewish Americans Try to Trademark Pro-Palestinian 'River to the Sea' Slogan"
https://www.newsweek.com/jewish-lawyer-wants-control-pro-palestinian-river-sea-slogan-1846511

#Copyright #Trademark

#trademark #copyright #ip #freespeech #fairuse #anticircumvention

Cory Doctorow @[email protected] · 2023-04-12 · 19:17 UTC

CW: Long thread/10

Which law? Well, take your pick. The modern meaning of "#IP" is "any law that lets me use the law to control my competitors, competition or customers." Platforms use a mix of #anticircumvention law, #patent, #copyright, #contract, #cybersecurity and other legal systems to weave together a thicket of rules that allow them to shut down rivals for their Felony Contempt of Business Model:

https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/

10/

#ip #anticircumvention #patent #copyright #contract #cybersecurity

Cory Doctorow @[email protected] · 2023-02-28 · 13:38 UTC

CW: Long thread/4

#20yrsago Ipsos-Reid sez #P2P doesn’t hurt record sales https://web.archive.org/web/20030416231449/http://www.ipsos-na.com/dsp_tempo.cfm

#20yrsago #CopyrightOffice posts #AntiCircumvention comments https://www.copyright.gov/1201/2003/reply/reply1.html

#20yrsago London's weird confluence of Orthodox Judiasm and proprietary software https://web.archive.org/web/20030314104647/http://cheerleader.yoz.com/archives/000433.html

#20yrsago Skunkworks: #Enron’s spiritual forebears https://www.wired.com/2003/03/silent-but-deadly/

#15yrsago Loony evangelical says he engineered Canadian film tax-credit changes that doom edgy indie movies https://web.archive.org/web/20080304152637/https://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080229.wculture29/BNStory/National/home

4/

#20yrsago #p2p #copyrightoffice #anticircumvention #enron #15yrsago

:rss: Hacker News @[email protected] · 2026-01-15 · 18:27 UTC

Denmark's struggle to break up with Silicon Valley
https://www.politico.eu/article/denmark-declared-war-against-big-tech-digital-sovereignty/
#ycombinator #Big_Tech #Buildings #Companies #Competition #Copyright #Critical_infrastructure #Data #Data_protection #Democracy #Denmark #digital #Education #Germany #Higher_education #Industry #Infrastructure #Insurance #Markets #Media #Negotiations #Payments #Privacy #Publishers #Safety #Services #Startups #Tariffs #Technology #United_States #Welfare

#ycombinator #big_tech #buildings #companies #competition #copyright

datum (n=1) @[email protected] · 2025-12-01 · 19:51 UTC

@pluralistic 's apt and dreamy call to arms:

We could be a disenshittification nation. We could seize the means of computation. We could have a new, good internet that respects our privacy and our wallets. We could make a goddamned fortune doing it.

https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/28/disenshittification-nation/

#CDNPoli #Canada #copyright #disenshittification #enshittification

#cdnpoli #canada #copyright #disenshittification #enshittification

datum (n=1) @[email protected] · 2025-12-01 · 19:47 UTC

It turns out that a lot of "impossible" things are really just fights you'd rather not have.

@pluralistic nails it. https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/28/disenshittification-nation/

#CDNPoli #Canada #copyright #enshittification #disenshittification

#cdnpoli #canada #copyright #enshittification #disenshittification

Eugene @[email protected] · 2026-05-13 · 19:41 UTC

❗ While preparing a literature review for my monograph on the hydrogeochemical impact of mine waters, I discovered the unauthorized use of my original materials in articles published in 2021 and 2024. Both publications were prepared with the primary involvement of staff from the Institute of Water Problems and Land Reclamation of the National Academy of Agricultural Sciences of Ukraine (IWPLR NAASU).

An analysis revealed facts that go beyond a simple copyright violation:
🔹 Data Falsification: Original photo metadata (date, time, GPS) was intentionally retouched to conceal their 2015 origin and authorship.
🔹 Methodological Anachronism: Using 2015 data for 2024 modeling renders results invalid by ignoring the major infrastructure overhaul launched in early 2025.
🔹 Institutional Failure: This misconduct by state academy staff signals a systemic collapse of research quality control and ethical oversight within the institutions.

#ScientificMisconduct #SvystunovaGully #ResearchEthics #DataIntegrity #Plagiarism

#plagiarism #researchethics #scientificmisconduct #dataintegrity #svystunovagully

Jonathan Bailey @[email protected] · 2026-04-06 · 23:11 UTC

Two recent stories highlighted the dangers not just of unethical AI usage, but of AI itself becoming a plagiarist. Sadly, there's no easy way around this.

https://www.plagiarismtoday.com/2026/04/06/what-happens-when-the-ai-is-the-plagiarist/

#Copyright #Plagiarism #AI #NewYorkTimes

#copyright #plagiarism #ai #newyorktimes

Walled Culture @[email protected] · 2026-05-13 · 12:00 UTC

Hadopi, perhaps the world’s worst copyright law, is moribund but not quite dead (yet)

One of the best demonstrations that an obsession with protecting copyright’s intellectual monopoly drives politicians insane is the French law known as Hadopi, an acronym for ‘Haute Autorité pour la diffusion des oeuvres et la protection des droits sur internet’ (High Authority for the Dissemination of Works and the Protection of Rights on the Internet). The Hadopi mechanism has been […]