DRM's Dead Canary: How We Just Lost the Web, What We Learned from It, and What We Need to Do Next. How DRM is used to squash the competition, silence security researchers, make sure movie are only available in certain region, who gets to fix your car, who gets to supply the toner for your printer. And then the article pivots to the W3C, Encrypted Media Extensions (EME), and browsers.
DRM's Dead Canary: How We Just Lost the Web, What We Learned from It, and What We Need to Do Next
And this is why I support the EFF: “EFF is suing the US government to overturn Section 1201 of the DMCA.”
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There is a a report by εxodus listing of Android apps and the trackers found within and the permissions they require. Consider using a mobile website instead. Mastodon apps, for example: no trackers for Tusky, one tracker for Twidere, two trackers for Tootdon; but Amaroq isn’t listed because it’s iPhone only.
Why is that? Cory Doctorow links it back to DRM: “But iOS is DRM-locked and it’s a felony – punishable by a 5-year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine for a first offense in the USA under DMCA 1201, and similar provisions of Article 6 of the EUCD in France where Exodus is located – to distribute tools that bypass this DRM, even for the essential work of discovering whether billions of people are at risk due to covert spying from the platform.”
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Cory Doctorow writes Three years after the W3C approved a DRM standard, it's no longer possible to make a functional indie browser, referring to the experiences of Samuel Maddock who writes The End of Indie Web Browsers: You Can (Not) Compete.
The End of Indie Web Browsers: You Can (Not) Compete
Yes, the EME standard can be implemented by anyone, but it’s moot when the requirement of a CDM says otherwise. … Ultimately, the best solution for society—rather than profits—is to drop DRM altogether. Given the unlikely chance of this happening, Google, Microsoft, and Apple should work to fix the web platform they’ve corrupted.
Yeah. Drop DRM altogether.
– Alex Schroeder 2020-01-09 17:15 UTC