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  1. How Youtuber Louis Rossmann's beef with an Australian PlayStation repair whiz revealed a shocking past
    abc.net.au/news/2025-07-20/you

    This story takes some twists and turns.

    For me, it's a reminder for me of several important points:
    - People who do downright awful things in one area of their life/work/morals are usually terrible people in other areas.
    - Some people have enough awareness to say "Sorry" to their victims, yet not show remorse or contrition. They do not change their ways, they are manipulative, and they think they're the smartest person in the room. They're incapable of showing sincere respect or gratitude toward other people. They're toxic, they're abusive, they're bullies, and they're acting as though "The end justifies the means" to get what they want.
    - We should all have the right to repair software, hardware, and systems we own. Whether you're running a repair business, or are a Maker (or "Hacker" by the old-school definition), or are a regular person engaging in a hobby at home, we should be supportive of each other in these aims. It's wrong to impede these goals by abusing legal tools such as Copyright, DRM, and DMCA.

    #RightToRepair #Maker #Hacker #LouisRossmann #JessaJones #DigitalRightsManagement #DigitalRestrictionsManagement #DRM #DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct DMCA #Copyright #YouTube #LuanTahiraj #BetterWayElectronics

  2. How Youtuber Louis Rossmann's beef with an Australian PlayStation repair whiz revealed a shocking past
    abc.net.au/news/2025-07-20/you

    This story takes some twists and turns.

    For me, it's a reminder for me of several important points:
    - People who do downright awful things in one area of their life/work/morals are usually terrible people in other areas.
    - Some people have enough awareness to say "Sorry" to their victims, yet not show remorse or contrition. They do not change their ways, they are manipulative, and they think they're the smartest person in the room. They're incapable of showing sincere respect or gratitude toward other people. They're toxic, they're abusive, they're bullies, and they're acting as though "The end justifies the means" to get what they want.
    - We should all have the right to repair software, hardware, and systems we own. Whether you're running a repair business, or are a Maker (or "Hacker" by the old-school definition), or are a regular person engaging in a hobby at home, we should be supportive of each other in these aims. It's wrong to impede these goals by abusing legal tools such as Copyright, DRM, and DMCA.

    #RightToRepair #Maker #Hacker #LouisRossmann #JessaJones #DigitalRightsManagement #DigitalRestrictionsManagement #DRM #DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct DMCA #Copyright #YouTube #LuanTahiraj #BetterWayElectronics

  3. How Youtuber Louis Rossmann's beef with an Australian PlayStation repair whiz revealed a shocking past
    abc.net.au/news/2025-07-20/you

    This story takes some twists and turns.

    For me, it's a reminder for me of several important points:
    - People who do downright awful things in one area of their life/work/morals are usually terrible people in other areas.
    - Some people have enough awareness to say "Sorry" to their victims, yet not show remorse or contrition. They do not change their ways, they are manipulative, and they think they're the smartest person in the room. They're incapable of showing sincere respect or gratitude toward other people. They're toxic, they're abusive, they're bullies, and they're acting as though "The end justifies the means" to get what they want.
    - We should all have the right to repair software, hardware, and systems we own. Whether you're running a repair business, or are a Maker (or "Hacker" by the old-school definition), or are a regular person engaging in a hobby at home, we should be supportive of each other in these aims. It's wrong to impede these goals by abusing legal tools such as Copyright, DRM, and DMCA.

    #RightToRepair #Maker #Hacker #LouisRossmann #JessaJones #DigitalRightsManagement #DigitalRestrictionsManagement #DRM #DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct DMCA #Copyright #YouTube #LuanTahiraj #BetterWayElectronics

  4. How Youtuber Louis Rossmann's beef with an Australian PlayStation repair whiz revealed a shocking past
    abc.net.au/news/2025-07-20/you

    This story takes some twists and turns.

    For me, it's a reminder for me of several important points:
    - People who do downright awful things in one area of their life/work/morals are usually terrible people in other areas.
    - Some people have enough awareness to say "Sorry" to their victims, yet not show remorse or contrition. They do not change their ways, they are manipulative, and they think they're the smartest person in the room. They're incapable of showing sincere respect or gratitude toward other people. They're toxic, they're abusive, they're bullies, and they're acting as though "The end justifies the means" to get what they want.
    - We should all have the right to repair software, hardware, and systems we own. Whether you're running a repair business, or are a Maker (or "Hacker" by the old-school definition), or are a regular person engaging in a hobby at home, we should be supportive of each other in these aims. It's wrong to impede these goals by abusing legal tools such as Copyright, DRM, and DMCA.

    #RightToRepair #Maker #Hacker #LouisRossmann #JessaJones #DigitalRightsManagement #DigitalRestrictionsManagement #DRM #DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct DMCA #Copyright #YouTube #LuanTahiraj #BetterWayElectronics

  5. How Youtuber Louis Rossmann's beef with an Australian PlayStation repair whiz revealed a shocking past
    abc.net.au/news/2025-07-20/you

    This story takes some twists and turns.

    For me, it's a reminder for me of several important points:
    - People who do downright awful things in one area of their life/work/morals are usually terrible people in other areas.
    - Some people have enough awareness to say "Sorry" to their victims, yet not show remorse or contrition. They do not change their ways, they are manipulative, and they think they're the smartest person in the room. They're incapable of showing sincere respect or gratitude toward other people. They're toxic, they're abusive, they're bullies, and they're acting as though "The end justifies the means" to get what they want.
    - We should all have the right to repair software, hardware, and systems we own. Whether you're running a repair business, or are a Maker (or "Hacker" by the old-school definition), or are a regular person engaging in a hobby at home, we should be supportive of each other in these aims. It's wrong to impede these goals by abusing legal tools such as Copyright, DRM, and DMCA.

    #RightToRepair #Maker #Hacker #LouisRossmann #JessaJones #DigitalRightsManagement #DigitalRestrictionsManagement #DRM #DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct DMCA #Copyright #YouTube #LuanTahiraj #BetterWayElectronics

  6. @pluralistic

    #Privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #Amazon's #Alexa

    (1/3)

    👉Amazon annihilates Alexa privacy settings, turns on continuous, nonconsensual audio uploading👈

    Is this globally?

    How e. g. in the EU.
    US laws don't apply there.

    "If the #Echo is your property, how come Amazon gets to break it? Because we passed a law that lets them. Section 1201 of 1998's #DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct makes it a felony to "bypass an access control"...

    pluralistic.net/2025/03/15/alt

  7. CW: Long thread/12

    But *zero* app users have installed ad-blockers, because reverse-engineering an app requires that you bypass its encryption, triggering liability under #Section1201 of the #DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct. This law provides for a $500,000 fine and a 5-year prison sentence for "circumvention" of access controls:

    pluralistic.net/2024/01/12/you

    12/

  8. CW: Long thread/25

    This means that when a vendor end-of-lifes a gadget, no one can make an alternative OS for it, so off the landfill it goes.

    It doesn't help that UEFI - and other trusted computing modules - are covered by #Section1201 of the #DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct (#DMCA), which makes it a felony to publish information that can bypass or weaken the system.

    25/

  9. Web browser suspended because it can browse the web is back on Google Play - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Alexander Koerner)

    Google Play... - arstechnica.com/?p=1987155 #digitalmillenniumcopyrightact #googleplay #policy #google

  10. Google Play keeps banning the same web browser due to vague DMCA notices - Enlarge / The Downloader app that was suspended from Google Play. (cred... - arstechnica.com/?p=1986644 #digitalmillenniumcopyrightact #googleplay #androidtv #policy #dmca

  11. CW: Long thread/34

    But once Google seized the majority of the mobile market, it was able to funnel users into apps, and reverse-engineering an app is a felony (felony contempt of business-model) under #Section1201 of the #DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct. An app is just a web-page wrapped in enough IP to make it a crime to install an ad-blocker.

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  12. Google sues people who “weaponized” DMCA to remove rivals’ search results - Enlarge (credit: Getty Images | Bloomberg)

    Google yesterday su... - arstechnica.com/?p=1983771 #digitalmillenniumcopyrightact #googlesearch #copyright #google #policy #dmca

  13. CW: Long thread/30

    Trafficking in tools to break a digital lock is a felony under #Section1201 of the #DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct, carrying a 5-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine.

    In other words, it's not just that tech isn't regulated, allowing for endless twiddling against your privacy, consumer rights and labor rights. It's that tech is *badly* regulated, to permit unlimited twiddling by tech companies to take away your rightsand to prohibit any twiddling by you to take them back.

    30/

  14. CW: Long thread/7

    Shredding parts and cooking up bogus trademark claims is just for starters, though. For Apple, the true anti-repair innovation comes from the most pernicious US tech law: #Section1201 of the #DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct (#DMCA).

    #DMCA1201 is an #AntiCircumvention law. It bans the distribution of any tool that bypasses "an effective means of access control."

    7/

  15. CW: Long thread/22

    There are only laws, like the #Section1201 of the #DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct, that make writing and distributing those programs a felony punishable by a five-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine (for a first offense).

    That is to say, the War On General Purpose Computing is only incidentally a *technical* fight: it is primarily a *legal* fight.

    22/

  16. CW: Long thread/11

    Apple uses #DRM to lock people into using its #AppStore, threatening anyone who reverse-engineers its devices to add competing stores with 5 year prison sentences under #Section1201 of the #DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct (#DMCA).

    Google's #Android *does* have a facility for "side-loading" apps that aren't in its app store, but the company uses a web of commercial requirements and technological tricks to prevent a competitor from emerging:

    theplatformlaw.blog/2023/05/24

    11/

  17. CW: Long thread/10

    With digital items, Amazon has a *double* lock-in, thanks to #DigitalRightsManagement (#DRM). Under #Section1201 of 1998's #DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct (#DMCA), it's a felony to provide someone with a tool to remove DRM, *even if no one ever uses that tool to infringe copyright*. That means that if Amazon sells you one of my books wrapped in its DRM, you can't play it unless you use an Amazon-authorized player.

    10/

  18. CW: Long thread/3

    Audible is #Amazon's monopoly audiobook platform. It has a death-grip on the audiobook market, commanding more than 90% of genre audiobook sales, and *every single one* of those audiobooks is sold with Amazon's DRM on it. That means that you can't break up with Amazon without throwing away those audiobooks. Under the 1998 #DigitalMillenniumCopyrightAct, I can't give you a tool to convert my own copyrighted audiobooks to a non-Amazon format.

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