#anticircumvention — Public Fediverse posts

Pluralistic: Tools vs uses (16 Mar 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/16/whittle-a-webserver/

As @pluralistic's has pointed out over and over, there is no longer even the pretense of a reason to keep enforcing the DMCA's enshittogenic "anti-circumvention" rules. Imposed on the world by US corporate interests through "trade agreements" they are now openly breaking. We must convince our lawmakers to decriminalise adversarial interoperability, and regulate in support of the Right to Repair, vendor-neutral technical standards, etc.

#DMCA #AntiCircumvention #RightToRepair #OpenStandards

As @pluralistic's has pointed out over and over, there is no longer even the pretense of a reason to keep enforcing the DMCA's enshittogenic "anti-circumvention" rules. Imposed on the world by US corporate interests through "trade agreements" they are now openly breaking. We must convince our lawmakers to decriminalise adversarial interoperability, and regulate in support of the Right to Repair, vendor-neutral technical standards, etc.

#DMCA #AntiCircumvention #RightToRepair #OpenStandards

As @pluralistic's has pointed out over and over, there is no longer even the pretense of a reason to keep enforcing the DMCA's enshittogenic "anti-circumvention" rules. Imposed on the world by US corporate interests through "trade agreements" they are now openly breaking. We must convince our lawmakers to decriminalise adversarial interoperability, and regulate in support of the Right to Repair, vendor-neutral technical standards, etc.

#DMCA #AntiCircumvention #RightToRepair #OpenStandards

As @pluralistic's has pointed out over and over, there is no longer even the pretense of a reason to keep enforcing the DMCA's enshittogenic "anti-circumvention" rules. Imposed on the world by US corporate interests through "trade agreements" they are now openly breaking. We must convince our lawmakers to decriminalise adversarial interoperability, and regulate in support of the Right to Repair, vendor-neutral technical standards, etc.

#DMCA #AntiCircumvention #RightToRepair #OpenStandards

Copyright Kills Competition

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/copyright-kills-competition/

Copyright Kills Competition

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/copyright-kills-competition/

Copyright Kills Competition

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/copyright-kills-competition/

Copyright Kills Competition

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/copyright-kills-competition/

"What if there was a way for a business to transform any conduct it disliked into a felony, harnessing the power of the state to threaten anyone who acted in a way that displeased the company with a long prison sentence and six-figure fines?

Surprise! That actually exists! It's called Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the "#anticircumvention" clause, which establishes five-year sentences and $500k fines for anyone who bypasses an "effective access control" for a copyrighted work."

Let Cory (@pluralistic) explain it. He's good at explaining #enshittification, or as the rest of us call it, the 21st goddamn century.

As an aside, there should be a branch of the Judicial tree that is staffed by people who understand technology and the implications therein. (Just sayin, as someone who had thousands of pages of material stolen "fairly" for LLM.) These courts don't understand what they're ruling on.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/#effective-means-of-access-control

#DMCA #copyright

"What if there was a way for a business to transform any conduct it disliked into a felony, harnessing the power of the state to threaten anyone who acted in a way that displeased the company with a long prison sentence and six-figure fines?

Surprise! That actually exists! It's called Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the "#anticircumvention" clause, which establishes five-year sentences and $500k fines for anyone who bypasses an "effective access control" for a copyrighted work."

Let Cory (@pluralistic) explain it. He's good at explaining #enshittification, or as the rest of us call it, the 21st goddamn century.

As an aside, there should be a branch of the Judicial tree that is staffed by people who understand technology and the implications therein. (Just sayin, as someone who had thousands of pages of material stolen "fairly" for LLM.) These courts don't understand what they're ruling on.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/#effective-means-of-access-control

#DMCA #copyright

"What if there was a way for a business to transform any conduct it disliked into a felony, harnessing the power of the state to threaten anyone who acted in a way that displeased the company with a long prison sentence and six-figure fines?

Surprise! That actually exists! It's called Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the "#anticircumvention" clause, which establishes five-year sentences and $500k fines for anyone who bypasses an "effective access control" for a copyrighted work."

Let Cory (@pluralistic) explain it. He's good at explaining #enshittification, or as the rest of us call it, the 21st goddamn century.

As an aside, there should be a branch of the Judicial tree that is staffed by people who understand technology and the implications therein. (Just sayin, as someone who had thousands of pages of material stolen "fairly" for LLM.) These courts don't understand what they're ruling on.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/#effective-means-of-access-control

#DMCA #copyright

"What if there was a way for a business to transform any conduct it disliked into a felony, harnessing the power of the state to threaten anyone who acted in a way that displeased the company with a long prison sentence and six-figure fines?

Surprise! That actually exists! It's called Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the "#anticircumvention" clause, which establishes five-year sentences and $500k fines for anyone who bypasses an "effective access control" for a copyrighted work."

Let Cory (@pluralistic) explain it. He's good at explaining #enshittification, or as the rest of us call it, the 21st goddamn century.

As an aside, there should be a branch of the Judicial tree that is staffed by people who understand technology and the implications therein. (Just sayin, as someone who had thousands of pages of material stolen "fairly" for LLM.) These courts don't understand what they're ruling on.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/#effective-means-of-access-control

#DMCA #copyright

Pluralistic: End of the line for video essays (07 Feb 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/

Pluralistic: End of the line for video essays (07 Feb 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/

Pluralistic: End of the line for video essays (07 Feb 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/

Pluralistic: End of the line for video essays (07 Feb 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/

Pluralistic: End of the line for video essays (07 Feb 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/

@jackyan
> I donʼt know how to make it but Iʼd be happy to promote it!

Plenty of people in Aotearoa could make it, but first we need to decriminalise it. With a Right to Repair bill that protects technological circumvention - for otherwise legal purposes - as a basic right in a democratic society.

I mean, computer scientists being allowed to publish and speak about circumvention is part of basic academic freedom, which is violated by current anti-circumvention laws.

#AntiCircumvention

@jackyan
> I donʼt know how to make it but Iʼd be happy to promote it!

Plenty of people in Aotearoa could make it, but first we need to decriminalise it. With a Right to Repair bill that protects technological circumvention - for otherwise legal purposes - as a basic right in a democratic society.

I mean, computer scientists being allowed to publish and speak about circumvention is part of basic academic freedom, which is violated by current anti-circumvention laws.

#AntiCircumvention

@jackyan
> I donʼt know how to make it but Iʼd be happy to promote it!

Plenty of people in Aotearoa could make it, but first we need to decriminalise it. With a Right to Repair bill that protects technological circumvention - for otherwise legal purposes - as a basic right in a democratic society.

I mean, computer scientists being allowed to publish and speak about circumvention is part of basic academic freedom, which is violated by current anti-circumvention laws.

#AntiCircumvention

@jackyan
> I donʼt know how to make it but Iʼd be happy to promote it!

Plenty of people in Aotearoa could make it, but first we need to decriminalise it. With a Right to Repair bill that protects technological circumvention - for otherwise legal purposes - as a basic right in a democratic society.

I mean, computer scientists being allowed to publish and speak about circumvention is part of basic academic freedom, which is violated by current anti-circumvention laws.

#AntiCircumvention

Pluralistic: Disenshittification Nation (29 Jan 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/post-american-canada/

Recht guter Beitrag:

"Zeitfragen. Feature: Im Netz der USA - Europas schwieriger Weg aus der digitalen Abhängigkeit"

Episode webpage: https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/im-netz-der-usa-europas-schwieriger-weg-aus-der-digitalen-abhaengigkeit-100.html

Media file: https://podcast-mp3.dradio.de/podcast/2026/01/20/im_netz_der_usa_europas_schwieriger_weg_aus_der_digitalen_drk_20260120_1930_49929435.mp3

siehe dazu auch den Talk von @pluralistic am ccc25:

"Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com: The Post-American Internet (39C3, Hamburg, Dec 28)"

Episode webpage: https://craphound.com/news/2026/01/01/the-post-american-internet-39c3-hamburg-dec-28/

Media file: https://archive.org/download/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_507/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_507_The_Post-American_Internet.mp3

#digitalsovereignty #opensource #PublicMoneyPublicCode #SchleswigHolstein #39c3 #righttofix #anticircumvention #trump #tarifs #eff

@jnsmd

Recht guter Beitrag:

"Zeitfragen. Feature: Im Netz der USA - Europas schwieriger Weg aus der digitalen Abhängigkeit"

Episode webpage: https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/im-netz-der-usa-europas-schwieriger-weg-aus-der-digitalen-abhaengigkeit-100.html

Media file: https://podcast-mp3.dradio.de/podcast/2026/01/20/im_netz_der_usa_europas_schwieriger_weg_aus_der_digitalen_drk_20260120_1930_49929435.mp3

siehe dazu auch den Talk von @pluralistic am ccc25:

"Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com: The Post-American Internet (39C3, Hamburg, Dec 28)"

Episode webpage: https://craphound.com/news/2026/01/01/the-post-american-internet-39c3-hamburg-dec-28/

Media file: https://archive.org/download/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_507/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_507_The_Post-American_Internet.mp3

#digitalsovereignty #opensource #PublicMoneyPublicCode #SchleswigHolstein #39c3 #righttofix #anticircumvention #trump #tarifs #eff

@jnsmd

Recht guter Beitrag:

"Zeitfragen. Feature: Im Netz der USA - Europas schwieriger Weg aus der digitalen Abhängigkeit"

Episode webpage: https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/im-netz-der-usa-europas-schwieriger-weg-aus-der-digitalen-abhaengigkeit-100.html

Media file: https://podcast-mp3.dradio.de/podcast/2026/01/20/im_netz_der_usa_europas_schwieriger_weg_aus_der_digitalen_drk_20260120_1930_49929435.mp3

siehe dazu auch den Talk von @pluralistic am ccc25:

"Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com: The Post-American Internet (39C3, Hamburg, Dec 28)"

Episode webpage: https://craphound.com/news/2026/01/01/the-post-american-internet-39c3-hamburg-dec-28/

Media file: https://archive.org/download/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_507/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_507_The_Post-American_Internet.mp3

#digitalsovereignty #opensource #PublicMoneyPublicCode #SchleswigHolstein #39c3 #righttofix #anticircumvention #trump #tarifs #eff

@jnsmd

Recht guter Beitrag:

"Zeitfragen. Feature: Im Netz der USA - Europas schwieriger Weg aus der digitalen Abhängigkeit"

Episode webpage: https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/im-netz-der-usa-europas-schwieriger-weg-aus-der-digitalen-abhaengigkeit-100.html

Media file: https://podcast-mp3.dradio.de/podcast/2026/01/20/im_netz_der_usa_europas_schwieriger_weg_aus_der_digitalen_drk_20260120_1930_49929435.mp3

siehe dazu auch den Talk von @pluralistic am ccc25:

"Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com: The Post-American Internet (39C3, Hamburg, Dec 28)"

Episode webpage: https://craphound.com/news/2026/01/01/the-post-american-internet-39c3-hamburg-dec-28/

Media file: https://archive.org/download/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_507/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_507_The_Post-American_Internet.mp3

#digitalsovereignty #opensource #PublicMoneyPublicCode #SchleswigHolstein #39c3 #righttofix #anticircumvention #trump #tarifs #eff

@jnsmd

Recht guter Beitrag:

"Zeitfragen. Feature: Im Netz der USA - Europas schwieriger Weg aus der digitalen Abhängigkeit"

Episode webpage: https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/im-netz-der-usa-europas-schwieriger-weg-aus-der-digitalen-abhaengigkeit-100.html

Media file: https://podcast-mp3.dradio.de/podcast/2026/01/20/im_netz_der_usa_europas_schwieriger_weg_aus_der_digitalen_drk_20260120_1930_49929435.mp3

siehe dazu auch den Talk von @pluralistic am ccc25:

"Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com: The Post-American Internet (39C3, Hamburg, Dec 28)"

Episode webpage: https://craphound.com/news/2026/01/01/the-post-american-internet-39c3-hamburg-dec-28/

Media file: https://archive.org/download/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_507/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_507_The_Post-American_Internet.mp3

#digitalsovereignty #opensource #PublicMoneyPublicCode #SchleswigHolstein #39c3 #righttofix #anticircumvention #trump #tarifs #eff

@jnsmd

Now that the Orange One is threatening new tariffs until Greenland is sold out it is high time to make @pluralistic idea of repealing anti-circumvention laws such as The European Copyright and Information Society Directive. It would be a powerful and creative way to strike back at US imperialist expansionism.

#EU, #Greenland, #anticircumvention

Now that the Orange One is threatening new tariffs until Greenland is sold out it is high time to make @pluralistic idea of repealing anti-circumvention laws such as The European Copyright and Information Society Directive. It would be a powerful and creative way to strike back at US imperialist expansionism.

#EU, #Greenland, #anticircumvention

Now that the Orange One is threatening new tariffs until Greenland is sold out it is high time to make @pluralistic idea of repealing anti-circumvention laws such as The European Copyright and Information Society Directive. It would be a powerful and creative way to strike back at US imperialist expansionism.

#EU, #Greenland, #anticircumvention

Now that the Orange One is threatening new tariffs until Greenland is sold out it is high time to make @pluralistic idea of repealing anti-circumvention laws such as The European Copyright and Information Society Directive. It would be a powerful and creative way to strike back at US imperialist expansionism.

#EU, #Greenland, #anticircumvention

Pluralistic: The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification (17 Jan 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/17/erin-lets-go/

Pluralistic: The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification (17 Jan 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/17/erin-lets-go/

Pluralistic: The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification (17 Jan 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/17/erin-lets-go/

Pluralistic: The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification (17 Jan 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/17/erin-lets-go/

Pluralistic: The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification (17 Jan 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/17/erin-lets-go/

Pluralistic: It's not normal (14 Jan 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/14/sole-and-despotic/

Pluralistic: Sorry, eh (13 Jan 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/13/not-sorry/

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

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

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

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

@pluralistic re: your #39c3 talk (which was excellent, as always), does China also have anti-circumvention laws? It seems to me Chinese companies would be in the best position to follow your prescription and start selling 3rd party jailbreak tools. If they don’t have anti-circumvention laws, what is preventing them from selling these jailbreak tools to everyone else in the world?

#EFF #AntiCircumvention #Jailbreak #Piracy #DMCA

@pluralistic re: your #39c3 talk (which was excellent, as always), does China also have anti-circumvention laws? It seems to me Chinese companies would be in the best position to follow your prescription and start selling 3rd party jailbreak tools. If they don’t have anti-circumvention laws, what is preventing them from selling these jailbreak tools to everyone else in the world?

#EFF #AntiCircumvention #Jailbreak #Piracy #DMCA

@pluralistic re: your #39c3 talk (which was excellent, as always), does China also have anti-circumvention laws? It seems to me Chinese companies would be in the best position to follow your prescription and start selling 3rd party jailbreak tools. If they don’t have anti-circumvention laws, what is preventing them from selling these jailbreak tools to everyone else in the world?

#EFF #AntiCircumvention #Jailbreak #Piracy #DMCA

@pluralistic re: your #39c3 talk (which was excellent, as always), does China also have anti-circumvention laws? It seems to me Chinese companies would be in the best position to follow your prescription and start selling 3rd party jailbreak tools. If they don’t have anti-circumvention laws, what is preventing them from selling these jailbreak tools to everyone else in the world?

#EFF #AntiCircumvention #Jailbreak #Piracy #DMCA

Pluralistic: The Post-American Internet (01 Jan 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/

Pluralistic: The Post-American Internet (01 Jan 2026)

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/

Pluralistic: The Post-American Internet (01 Jan 2026)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/