#digitalrightsmanagement — Public Fediverse posts

#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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#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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#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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#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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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.