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Right To Repair: Tractor Manufacturers Might Have Met Their Match In Australia

Posted on April 21, 2020 by Jenny List

The simmering duel between farmers and agricultural machinery manufacturers over access to the software to unlock the DRM which excludes all but the manufacturer’s agents from performing repairs goes on. How this plays out will have implications for the right to repair for everyone on many more devices than simply …read more

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Bethesda Apparently Broke Its Own Denuvo Protection For Doom Eternal

Posted on March 21, 2020 by BeauHD

According to users on Reddit and ResetEra, Bethesda launched Doom Eternal with a DRM-free copy of the game’s executable sitting in plain sight amid the download package. Ars Technica reports: Forum users on Reddit and ResetEra were among the first yest… Continue reading Bethesda Apparently Broke Its Own Denuvo Protection For Doom Eternal→

John Deere And Nebraska’s Right To Repair, The Aftermath Of A Failed Piece Of Legislation

Posted on March 9, 2020 by Jenny List

For the past few years now we’ve covered a long-running battle between American farmers and the manufacturers of their farm machinery, over their right to repair, with particular focus on the agricultural giant John Deere. The manufacturer of the familiar green and yellow machinery that lies in the heart and …read more

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Secure display PDF in web page

Posted on March 5, 2020 by hdcnik

I would like to share some “sensible” PDFs into a web application that I own.
Logged users should only be able to browse that PDFs online, therefore they shouldn’t be able to download the source PDF file and it should be as complicated as … Continue reading Secure display PDF in web page→

How to restrict software distribution or make sure it should not be copied

Posted on February 6, 2020 by Hardik Brahmbhatt

I Want to release software and it is going to be hosted on the client system. How to make sure that it should not be copied or how to restrict unpaid users using the software.

I have 2 questions.

What are the different options to implem… Continue reading How to restrict software distribution or make sure it should not be copied→

How does Widevine, FairPlay, and other DRM’s work under the hood?

Posted on January 9, 2020 by JBis

I am trying to understand how DRM works under the hood. There doesn’t seem to be much information about it on the web so I figured I would ask here.

After some attempted research, I found it extremely difficult to find any … Continue reading How does Widevine, FairPlay, and other DRM’s work under the hood?→

DMCA-Locked Tractors Make Decades-Old Machines the New Hotness

Posted on January 7, 2020 by Jenny List

It’s fair to say that the hearts and minds of Hackaday readers lie closer to the technology centres of Shenzhen or Silicon Valley than they do to the soybean fields of Minnesota. The common link is the desire to actually own the hardware we buy. Among those working the soil …read more

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Prusa Dares You to Break Their Latest Printer

Posted on December 16, 2019 by Tom Nardi

Two months after its surprise reveal at the 2019 East Coast RepRap Festival, the Prusa Mini has started shipping out to the first wave of early adopters. True to form, with the hardware now officially released to the public, the company has begun the process of releasing the design as …read more

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The Curse of Outdated DRM Claims Another Vicim, ‘Tron: Evolution’

Posted on December 4, 2019 by msmash

As of this week, players who owned a legitimate copy of Tron: Evolution they paid for but never played it, no longer can. From a report: Tron: Evolution, a tie-in game for the 2010 Tron: Legacy film, used SecurRom, a form of digital rights management (… Continue reading The Curse of Outdated DRM Claims Another Vicim, ‘Tron: Evolution’→

Schemes/ Mechanisms that could provide one time decryption?

Posted on December 2, 2019 by DaveIdito

I am quite familiar with most of the common undergrad/grad security foundations; but I couldn’t find anything related to this scenario:

A scheme/system where a piece of data can only be ‘decrypted’ AND read only once (pot… Continue reading Schemes/ Mechanisms that could provide one time decryption?→