Thinking about attempting to code an #ActivityPub service as a learning project, and to perhaps solve the social lock-in issue of gaming platform profiles that really pisses me off. 🤔
I really really don't like #DRM, however I'm way too attached to my almost 20 year old #Steam profile and like to do video game achievements. Having a unified, federated profile that pulls its data from all the different sources (Steam, PSN, Xbox, RetroAchievements.org and especially GOG) would be neat. #gaming
I would buy more #BluRays if it wasn't such a hassle to rip them. I don't have a #BluRay player. I have enough things to plug into my TV. I do have a BluRay drive but there is a whole thing you need to do for it to work.
People who do actual #piracy do this all the time. They get a kick out of defeating #DRM. For the rest of us it feels like we are being kicked by DRM for the sole crime of buying #PhysicalMedia.
DRM ruins efforts at historical preservation. If all of our media is locked up in digital streaming platforms -- which will go under eventually -- how will it be preserved for future generations? Live DRM-free instead: https://u.fsf.org/1aj#EndDRM#DRM
#DRM isn't just an annoyance -- it's a violation of your right to use the items you own as you see fit. Learn more about our Defective by Design campaign at http://defectivebydesign.org
DRM ruins efforts at historical preservation. If all of our media is locked up in digital streaming platforms -- which will go under eventually -- how will it be preserved for future generations? Live DRM-free instead: https://u.fsf.org/1aj#EndDRM#DRM
#DRM isn't just an annoyance -- it's a violation of your right to use the items you own as you see fit. Learn more about our Defective by Design campaign at http://defectivebydesign.org
It’s been over a decade since Tor Books UK revealed that the decision to sell DRM-free #ebooks didn’t negatively impact their business or cause an increase in unauthorised file sharing. Sadly, few traditional publishers have followed suit. I hope the rest of the industry takes the hint, sooner rather than later. The day ALL publishers stop infecting their ebooks with #DRM can’t come soon enough as far as I’m concerned. Defective by design is NOT a feature. @bookstodon
has anyone been writing or studying the political economy of recent DRM and copyright-related cryptosystems in operating systems or hardware? Intel's HDCP, Google's Widevine, Apple's Fairplay, and more? coming up blank.
@slashdot I guess big factor in that is that #DRM do not apply to paper books, along with loss of access to a digital book if something got hacked, new software got incompatible with old format declared obsolete at pure whim, or because firm who provided the e-books reading online gone bankrupt, or because of a faulty backup, a power outage or a connectivity issue.
Crunchyroll is shutting down the Funimation streaming service and deleting everyone's purchased copies of stuff, while also hiking their own prices.
Stop paying for streaming media. Buy things you actually own. Or get it elsewhere.
@kennykravitz@EposVox they should not only be legally forced to refund said pirchases but be liable for all the costs of obtaining #DRM-free, physical copies + the time it took to do so.
#Steam at least has provisions in place to provide people access to their games without Steamworks-based DRM should Valve ever go belly-up as a company, which seems unlikely but is a non-zero chance regardless!
This is an interesting survey for all #authors / writers in the EU! Espesially if you do research for your books and projects.
Survey on the Effects of Digital Content Locks and Technological Protection Measures (TPMs – sometimes called Digital Rights Management / #DRM, #Geoblocking etc) on Education and #Research
@polygon@polygon This looks like a good deal at first, but please be aware that
It's US only.
It's dreadfully hobbled by Adobe DRM
You should not buy it
Until today, my experience buying #ebooks from Humble Bundle was they were always available unencumbered by #DRM. I have hundreds of #DRMFree#epubs built up over the past decade.
The #PratchettDiscworldHumbleBundle is through #Rakuten#Kobo's ebook shop, and all the books are encumbered by #Adobe and the #AdobeDigitalEdition DRM. There is zero indication that this DRM is included on the bundle page itself. and it explicitly says "Use on Any Device". On the #RakutenKobo page itself, the only indication the file has DRM is some small bottom-text that says "Download Options: EPUB 3 (Adobe DRM)".
Also, DRM Digital Editions will also "helpfully" install Norton for you as well. It's like the dogshit you just stepped in offered to stab you in the kidney, too.
This is shameful and disgusting from Humble Bundle. I know Humble Bundle got acquired years ago by IGN/Ziff Davis, but they'd avoided the levels of #enshittification to make me stop using them.
@nixCraft IMHO #Copyright should not only be limited to 25 years flat with 0 means to extend it but also be bound to #FRAND terms for #licensing.
Meaning that if one can't #buy a physical #copy without #DRM at a fair and reasonable price making copies amd distributing them should be legal for everyone!
The absurdity of claiming #damages for #torrenting should also be limited to the amount if buying a #copy without #DRM at the lowest price it has been offered - used or new - ever.