Collaborate Disseminate
With a long history of nearly universal hate for their products, you’d think printer manufacturers would by now have found ways to back off from the policies that only seem …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: March 12, 2023
It was very interesting for me, because I decided to try to record content protected by drm, using geforce experience. Nothing worked out and as soon as the video started playing, the recording automatically turned off. Everything worked p… Continue reading How does drm work in Windows browsers? [closed]
To celebrate this year’s “Public Domain Day,” the Internet Archive “asked people to submit short films highlighting anything that was going to be made available in the Public Domain in 2023.”
For the contest, vintage images and sounds were woven into … Continue reading Internet Archive Celebrates 1927 Works’ Arrival in Public Domain with Short Film Contest
Slashdot has covered the legal hijinx of Malibu Media over the years. Now Ars Technica reports that the studio could be destroyed by unpaid taxes:
Over the past decade, Malibu Media has emerged as a prominent so-called “copyright troll,” suing thousan… Continue reading Unpaid Taxes Could Destroy Porn Studio Accused of Copyright Trolling
Guess what’s finally entering America’s public domain today? Appropriately enough, it’s Marcel Proust’s 1927 novel Remembrance of Things Past.
Also entering the public domain today are thousands of other books, plus the music and lyrics of hundreds o… Continue reading ‘Metropolis’, Sherlock Holmes Finally Enter the Public Domain 95 Years Later
By now everyone has probably seen the devastation wrought by the structural failure of what was once the world’s largest free-standing cylindrical aquarium. The scale of the tank, which until …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: December 18, 2022
Before all the un-helpful comments come out of the woodwork (i.e. "if you want to protect it, don’t upload it") – I get it. The only way to protect it is to not put it out there. Not an option, not helpful. Home security isn’t ab… Continue reading Best practices for IP protection on photography site [closed]
“There’s a new Joker movie coming out,” writes the Verge, “but you might not get a chance to see it because copyright is broken.”
I’m not talking about Joker: Folie à Deux, the officially sanctioned sequel to the Todd Phillips film Joker. I’m t… Continue reading Copyright Concerns Make a Film Festival Pull ‘People’s Joker’ Movie
Denuvo, the company best known for its heavily-criticized PC gaming DRM technology, has set its sights on a new scourge: Nintendo Switch piracy. Kotaku reports: The software maker announced during GamesCom 2022 on Wednesday that it will begin selling a… Continue reading Notorious DRM Company Takes Aim At Switch Piracy
“Creators aren’t getting paid,” says Cory Doctorow. “That’s because powerful corporations have figured out how to create chokepoints — that let them snatch up more of the value generated by creative work before it reaches creative workers.”