Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #digitalrightsmanagement, aggregated by home.social.
Google fined $463 million for breaching EU rule on location data | National News
Google has been fined 403 million euros ($463 million) for breaching the European Union’s strict privacy rules because…
#Europe #EU #business #Cybercrime #digitalrightsmanagement #EuropeanUnion #Generalnews #GoogleEUprivacyIreland #informationsecurity #Privacy #technology #Worldnews
https://www.europesays.com/europe/143511/
Google hit with $463 million fine for EU location data rule breach | Business
Google has been fined 403 million euros ($463 million) for breaching the European Union’s strict privacy rules because…
#Europe #EU #business #Cybercrime #digitalrightsmanagement #EuropeanUnion #Generalnews #GoogleEUprivacyIreland #informationsecurity #Privacy #technology #Worldnews
https://www.europesays.com/europe/143428/
Honoured to be an Auracles Early Adopter (hence the official stamp).
From the website: This enables "music makers & representatives to create a verified digital ID, streamline their data, and grant permissions for approved use of works."
Founded by Imogen Heap
My Auracles ID: AURA01JE38RNJ92
#music #data #Identity #verified #composer #Digitalrightsmanagement
#12octubre Día contra la Gestión Digital de Restricciones #DRM
Desde cuando se celebra: 2006 iniciativa de la organización sin fines de lucro #FreeSoftwareFoundation, mediante una campaña para sensibilizar a los #usuarios acerca de los efectos perjudiciales del DRM
#derechosdigitales
con la finalidad de visibilizar la manera como este tipo de #tecnologías impone #limitaciones a los usuarios de contenido multimedia digital
https://www.diainternacionalde.com/ficha/dia-internacional-drm
How Youtuber Louis Rossmann's beef with an Australian PlayStation repair whiz revealed a shocking past
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07-20/youtuber-louis-rossmann-takes-on-better-way-electronics/105532410
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
https://www.europesays.com/uk/72286/ TikTok fined $600 million for China data transfers that broke EU privacy rules #Business #ByteDanceLtd. #China #ChristineGrahn #Cybercrime #DigitalRightsManagement #EU #Eurocopa2024 #Europe #European #EuropeanUnion #InformationSecurity #Politics #Privacy #Technology
📬 Microsoft PlayReady-Datenleck: Quellcode versehentlich veröffentlicht
#Datenschutz #Internet #AGSecurityResearchLab #Datenleck #DigitalRightsManagement #DRMKopierschutz #Microsoft #PlayReady https://sc.tarnkappe.info/53eb0c
Any ideas how #Microsoft #Recall is supposed to interact with #DRM? Would protected content also be saved even if the respective media forbids screenshots?
by extension, what does the #fediverse think about #DRM? :repost_ok: #ethics #DigitalRightsManagement #boost #BoostsWelcome
#15yrsago Kansas Representative introduces anti-#netroots campaign finance reform bill https://web.archive.org/web/20090216145249/http://seantevis.com/weblog/story/my-response-to-house-bill-no-2244-aka-the-sean-tevis-bill/
#15yrsago @eff asks the FTC to protect the public from #DigitalRightsManagement https://www.eff.org/files/filenode/DRM/drmcomments_final.pdf
#15yrsago @neilhimself waxes sensible on Kindle #Audiobooks and the redonkulous Author’s Guild https://journal.neilgaiman.com/2009/02/quick-argument-summary.html
#15yrsago Salmonella Peanut CEO won’t eat his own peanuts, cites Fifth Amendment https://www.mprnews.org/story/2009/02/11/peanut-co-owner-refuses-to-testify-to-congress
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Take movie projectors. A couple decades ago, the studio cartel established a standard for digital movie distribution to cinematic exhibitors called the #DigitalCinemaInitiative. Because studio executives are more worried about stopping piracy than they are about making sure that people who pay for movies get to see them, they build #DigitalRightsManagement into this standard.
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I know it's weird to be worried about realism in movies that pretend we will find a practical means to visit other star systems and shuttle between them (which we are very, very unlikely to do):
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/09/astrobezzle/#send-robots-instead
But this kind of foolishness galls me. It galls me more when it happens in the *real* world of technology design, which is why I've spent the past quarter-century being *very cross* about #DigitalRightsManagement in general, and #TrustedComputing in particular.
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Why? Because Audible - Amazon's monopoly gatekeeper to the audiobook world, with more than 90% of the market - refuses to carry my work.
Audible uses #DigitalRightsManagement to lock every audiobook they sell to their platform. Legally, only an Audible-authorized app can decrypt and play the audiobooks they sell you. Distributing a tool that removes Audible DRM is a felony under #Section1201 of the 1998 #DMCA.
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Amazon maintains a near-total grip over print and ebooks, but when it comes to audiobooks, that control is *total*. The company's #Audible division has captured more than 90% of the market, and it abuses that dominance to cram #DigitalRightsManagement onto every book it sells, even if the author doesn't want it:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/25/can-you-hear-me-now/#acx-ripoff
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That's all very abstract, but here's what it means: if a manufacturer sticks some #DigitalRightsManagement (#DRM) in its device, then anything you want to do that involves removing that DRM is now illegal - even if the thing itself is perfectly legal.
When Congress passed this stupid law in 1998, it had a very limited blast radius. Computers were still pretty expensive and DRM use was limited to a few narrow categories.
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To invoke #DMCA1201, a company must first add the thinnest skin of #DigitalRightsManagement to their product. Since 1201 makes removing #DRM illegal, a company can use this molecule-thick scrim of DRM to felonize any activity that the DRM prevents.
More than 20 years ago, technologists started to tinker with ways to combine the legal and technical to tame the wild general purpose computer.
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This is a surprisingly (for @pluralistic) astute observation that #ElonMusk and #Tesla are not paragons of #capitalism: https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/110791855391524106
Tesla’s business model is completely dependent on government #subsidies, kickbacks in the form of #TaxBreaks and the artificial “market” of #CarbonCredits, and a legal #monopoly in the form of #DMCA-protected #DigitalRightsManagement (#DRM).
The company not only defrauds its customers, they take advantage of every #US #taxpayer.
Wired: Automakers Say They Resolved the Right-to-Repair Fight. Critics Aren’t Ready to Make Peace https://www.wired.com/story/automakers-say-they-resolved-the-right-to-repair-fight/ #Business/PolicyandNetNeutrality #DigitalRightsManagement #TechPolicyandLaw #GeneralMotors #DigitalRights #automobiles #Regulation #Business #Cars2.0 #driving #Policy #cars
Wired: Automakers Say They Resolved the Right-to-Repair Fight. Critics Aren’t Ready to Make Peace https://www.wired.com/story/automakers-say-they-resolved-the-right-to-repair-fight/ #Business/PolicyandNetNeutrality #DigitalRightsManagement #TechPolicyandLaw #GeneralMotors #DigitalRights #automobiles #Regulation #Business #Cars2.0 #driving #Policy #cars
Wired: Automakers Say They Resolved the Right-to-Repair Fight. Critics Aren’t Ready to Make Peace https://www.wired.com/story/automakers-say-they-resolved-the-right-to-repair-fight/ #Tech #wired #TechNews #IT #Technology via @morganeogerbc #Business/PolicyandNetNeutrality #DigitalRightsManagement #TechPolicyandLaw #GeneralMotors #DigitalRights #automobiles #Regulation #Business #Cars2.0 #driving #Policy #cars
Wired: Automakers Say They Resolved the Right-to-Repair Fight. Critics Aren’t Ready to Make Peace https://www.wired.com/story/automakers-say-they-resolved-the-right-to-repair-fight/ #Business/PolicyandNetNeutrality #DigitalRightsManagement #TechPolicyandLaw #GeneralMotors #DigitalRights #automobiles #Regulation #Business #Cars2.0 #driving #Policy #cars
Gaps in digital rights management pose serious risk #CyberSecurity #DigitalRightsManagement
https://betanews.com/2023/07/14/gaps-in-digital-rights-management-pose-serious-risk/
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.
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Kotaku: Resident Evil 4 Remake As Told By Steam Reviews https://kotaku.com/resident-evil-4-remake-re4-2023-steam-pc-user-reviews-1850273649 #gaming #tech #kotaku #videogamesdevelopedinjapan #digitalrightsmanagement #singleplayervideogames #horrorvideogames #videogamesequels #residentevil4 #creativeworks #residentevil #windowsgames #leonskennedy #videogaming #videogames #capcom #denuvo
Make Use Of: How to Remove DRM From Your Ebooks: 6 Methods to Try https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/ways-to-remove-drm-from-ebooks/ #Tech #MakeUseOf #TechNews #IT via @morganeogerbc #DigitalRightsManagement #Entertainment #Ebooks
DRM in WebRTC? Say it ain't so! Well, it is so and I blogged about it...
#RTIS #RealTimeStreaming #DRM #DigitalRightsManagement #webRTC
Kotaku: The Dream Of DRM-Free Steam PC Games Is Fading Away https://kotaku.com/gog-connect-cd-projekt-valve-steam-pc-gaming-drm-1849985921 #gaming #tech #kotaku #digitalrightsmanagement #technology2cinternet #videogamepublishers #digitaltechnology #ecommerce #cdprojekt #computing #software #gogcom #pcgame #steam #gog
As we move more into using digital textbooks for online courses (Yay for convenience, accessibility, and environmental consideration), WHYYYYY is there still no solution that addresses both the need for DRM (which is another argument altogether) AND allows the student a better UX by enabling useful, searchable, index-able highlighting and note-taking. $8K+ for SANS courses, and the digital copies of the books are completely useless to have any notes, comments, highlighting.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m a huge fan of the idea of digital textbooks. Let’s me get ahead on some reading from my iPad on the go, keeps me making progress when I forget a text at home… they can be very useful. And, I get copyright protection, I do, but at the price paid for some digital textbooks, you’d think there’d be a market for Adobe to make some kind of functionality that was ACTUALLY a good note-taking and markup utility that still works within the DRM framework.
Beyond that, I do have to wonder what the ACTUAL cost to an org would be if the textbook material wasn’t DRM-protected. Wouldn’t the lion’s share of customers (IE: large orgs, government) still be paying for the content. Is the juice really worth the squeeze on something like this (and I’m assuming it’s pretty frequently pirated given they invest in it to begin with).
#DigitalTextbooks #EducationSoftware #DigitalRightsManagement
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/remove-drm-every-ebook-own/[email protected]
A crash course in how to remove various types of DRM from your E-Books.
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📬 Intel Alder Lake DRM Probleme behoben (abschließend und für immer?) #Gaming #AlderLake #Denuvo #DigitalRightsManagement #drm #Intel #Kopierschutz https://tarnkappe.info/intel-alder-lake-drm-probleme-behoben-abschliessend-und-fuer-immer/
📬 Intel Core i-12000 Alder Lake: Denuvo-Probleme beim neuen Hybrid-Prozessor #Gaming #AlderLake #Denuvo #DigitalRightsManagement #Intel #Kopierschutz https://tarnkappe.info/intel-core-i-12000-alder-lake-denuvo-probleme-beim-neuen-hybrid-prozessor/
📬 Intel Alder Lake: Probleme mit Denuvo und anderen Kopierschutzmechanismen erwartet #Gaming #Denuvo #DigitalRightsManagement #Kopierschutz #SecuROM https://tarnkappe.info/intel-alder-lake-probleme-mit-denuvo-und-anderen-kopierschutzmechanismen-erwartet/
Firmware Find Hints At Subscription Plan for reMarkable Tablet - We’ve been keeping a close eye on the development of electronic paper tablets such... - https://hackaday.com/2021/09/22/firmware-find-hints-at-subscription-plan-for-remarkable-tablet/ #digitalrightsmanagement #subscription #tablethacks #remarkable #news
