Collaborate Disseminate
From science fiction author/blogger/technology activist Cory Doctorow:
Right to repair has no cannier, more dedicated adversary than Apple, a company whose most innovative work is dreaming up new ways to sneakily sabotage electronics repair while clai… Continue reading Cory Doctorow: Apple Sabotages Right-to-Repair Using ‘Parts-Pairing’ and the DMCA
Denuvo has become the first security partner to be added to the Nintendo Developer Portal. According to Video Games Chronicle, Switch developers can use Denuvo’s tools for their games to block users from playing them on PC emulators. From the report: “… Continue reading Denuvo Security Is Now On Switch, Including New Tech To Block PC Switch Emulation
Google’s newest proposed web standard is… DRM? Over the weekend the Internet got wind of this proposal for a “Web Environment Integrity API. ” From a report: The explainer is authored by four Googlers, including at least one person on Chrome’s “Priva… Continue reading Google’s Nightmare ‘Web Integrity API’ Wants a DRM Gatekeeper For the Web
Hackaday has been online in some form or another since 2004, which for the Internet, makes us pretty damn old. But while that makes us one of the oldest surviving …read more Continue reading 2600 Breaks Free From DRM with PDF/EPUB Subscription
The Internet Archive has taken the rather unusual step of sending a DMCA notice to protect the copyrights of book publishers and authors. The non-profit organization asked GitHub to remove a tool that can strip DRM from books in its library. The protec… Continue reading Internet Archive Targets Book DRM Removal Tool With DMCA Takedown
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Simply mentioning the name “Denuvo” among some gamers is pretty much guaranteed to get you an instant, strong reaction. Just look at the comment threads underneath any Ars article covering Denuvo a… Continue reading Denuvo Wants To Convince You Its DRM Isn’t ‘Evil’
A couple years ago I rented a movie on iTunes and began watching it in the Windows 10 x64 desktop app.
At one point, I opened OBS in capture screen mode. To my amazement, the iTunes window showed only black content in OBS’s preview and rec… Continue reading Displaying on screen without being recordable by another app
The Brain virus is an early virus targeting the IBM PC / MS DOS platform.
Sometimes, it is claimed that one of the virus’ purpose was to prevent the copying of some software that the virus was distributed with.
For example from the virus’ … Continue reading Could the Brain virus technically prevent software piracy?
We’ve all been there before — you need some 3D printable design that you figure must be common enough that somebody has already designed it, so you point your browser …read more Continue reading 3D Model Subscriptions are Coming, But Who’s Buying?
Long time readers will know that occasionally we mix up our usual subject matter with a dash of farm equipment. Usually the yellow and green variants that come from John …read more Continue reading The World’s First Agricultural Right to Repair Law