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When did Apple start to become evil?
Earlier than I thought.
Thanks to Cory for cluing me in.
https://archive.org/details/AppleSSAFEProject
From "Vadermeer":\
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Yesterday at the Seattle Goodwill Outlet, where everything is sold by the pound, I noticed the Apple logo on letterhead sticking out from a bin of books, so I started digging. What I found were the 1979-1980 files of Jack MacDonald, manager of system software for the Apple II and /// at the time. They tell the story of project "SSAFE" or "Software Security from Apples Friends and Enemies." This was a proposal to bring disk copy protection in-house to sell as a service to outside developers. Inter-office memos, meeting notes and progress reports all give a good idea of what a project lifecycle was like. Different schemes and levels of protection are considered, as well as implementation primarily on the Apple II+ and the upcoming SARA (The Apple ///) and Lisa computers. Randy Wigginton is featured prominently throughout, along with mentions of Woz and many other familiar names.\
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The documents were all a jumble so I've put them in chronological order and scanned the collection, please enjoy.
Here's a direct link to the PDF. https://archive.org/download/AppleSSAFEProject/Apple%20SSAFE%20Project.pdf
Randy Wigginton was a name I was not familiar with.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Randy_Wigginton
This article doesn't mention Wigginton's role in pushing DRM. That's what the PDF is all about. My Apple //e was the freest, most open computer I have ever owned, but while I was enjoying that, the powerful at Apple were already scheming to take all that away.
The Wigginton article connected to Michael Scott. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Scott_(Apple)
On February 25, 1981, the day known as "Black Wednesday" at the company, Scott personally fired forty Apple employees, including half of the Apple II team, in a belief that they were redundant. Later in the afternoon he assembled the remaining employees with a keg of beer and explained the firings by stating, "I used to say that when being CEO at Apple wasn't fun anymore, I'd quit. But now I've changed my mind — when it isn't fun any more, I'll fire people until it's fun again."\
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Following this abrupt event, he was moved to vice chairman, a title with little power, and Mike Markkula, the man who had hired Scott, replaced him.\
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Scott left Apple officially on July 10, 1981, stating in his resignation letter:So I am having a new learning experience, something I've never done before. I quit, not resign to join a new company or retire for personal reasons ... This is not done for those who fear my opinions and style, but for the loyal ones who may be given false hope.\
Yours. Michael, Private Citizen
A series of documents discovered at a thrift store in Seattle examines Apple's mindset in the late '70s and early '80s as it shifted from a hobbyist company to one interested in gathering, and retaining business clients for its Apple II series of computers.
#drm #defective-by-design #freedom #computer #computers #copy-protection #free-software #software-freedom
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Bei dem miesen Angebot und der Willkür der Studios müssen die sich nicht über kostenlose Downloads wundern!
Siehe: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0L-s0hWt0TM
#Filme #Serien #Streaming #Entertainment #Internet #Verfügbarkeit #Lizenzen #DRM #Copyright #Urheberrecht #Verkauf #Abo
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Why None of my Books Are Available on Audible:
And Why Amazon Owes Me $3,218.55
by Cory Doctorow
So now there is one Cory Doctorow audio book on Audible, and it's all about how Audible screws over writers, publishers, audio book narrators, and customers.
You can read the text here. https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/25/can-you-hear-me-now/
You can listen to Cory read it here. https://archive.org/download/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_431/Cory_Doctorow_Podcast_431_-_Why_none_of_my_books_are_available_on_Audible.mp3 It starts at 4:26. This is the latest episode of the Cory Doctorow podcast, so there is other stuff too.
It is now available as an ebook for Kindle for $0.98 (presumably with DRM) on Amazon. https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0B5RWTPR7/
And, finally, the audio of Cory reading it is now available on Audible (definitely with DRM). https://www.audible.com/pd/B0B7KH8KSD
In 2011, I gave a speech at Berlin's Chaos Communications Congress called "The Coming War on General Purpose Computing." In it, I explained that Digital Rights Management was technologically incoherent, a bizarre fantasy in which untrusted users of computers could be given encrypted files and all the tools needed to decrypt them, but somehow be prevented from using those decrypted files in ways that conflicted with the preferences of the company that supplied those files:\
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https://memex.craphound.com/2012/01/10/lockdown-the-coming-war-on-general-purpose-computing/\
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As I said then, computers are stubbornly, inescapably "general purpose." The only computer we know how to make – the Turing-complete von Neumann machine – is the computer that can run all the programs we know how to write. When someone claims to have built a computer-powered "appliance" – say, a smart speaker or (God help us all) a smart toaster – that can only run certain programs, what they mean is that they've designed a computer that can run every program, but which will refuse to run programs unless the manufacturer approves them.
BTW, here's the RSS feed for the Cory Doctorow podcast. https://feeds.feedburner.com/doctorow_podcast
#cory #cory-doctorow #amazon #audible #kindle #copyright #drm #law #dmca #1201 #creators #narrators #audio-book-narrators #podcast
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#Sony’s #PlayStation Store Pulling Access to Purchased Studiocanal #Movies Next Month
“As of August 31, 2022, due to our evolving licensing agreements with content providers, you will no longer be able to view your previously purchased Studio Canal content and it will be removed from your #video library,” the notices read. “We greatly appreciate your continued support.” The PlayStation Store’s removal of the films was previously reported by German website 4KFilme.
And where do I get my #money back for buying the movies you Scammers?
#copyright #DRM #fail #customer #service #digital #economy #news #entertainment #movie
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[l] Habt ihr das auch gelesen? Die Russen haben in der Ukraine Traktoren gestohlen und nach Tschetschenien gekarrt, um dann dort festzustellen, dass der Hersteller die aus der Ferne deaktiviert hat?
Haha! Super luschtig! Bis euch auffällt, dass der Hersteller das Feature nicht für den Ukrainekrieg programiert haben wird, sondern gegen reguläre Bauern. Das ist DRM. Wenn die das mit den Russen machen können, können sie das auch mit euch machen. Da ist nichts lustig dran. Das ist eine fucking Dystopie!
Cory Doctorow hat den Finger in der Wunde.
Money Quote 1:
Why are John Deere tractors kill-switched in the first place?
Here’s a hint: the technology was not invented to thwart Russian looters.
No, it was invented to thwart American farmers.
Mir ist ja absolut unklar, wieso irgendjemand irgendwo auf der Welt irgendwas von dieser Firma kaufen würde. Das ist nun seit langer Zeit bekannt, wie die ticken. Als die einmal versehentlich eine Debug-Firmware geliefert haben — ironischerweise in die Ukraine! —, hat sich ein weltweiter Schwarzmarkt für Kopien dieser Firmware gebildet. Wie viele rote Warnlampen brauchen die Farmer, bevor sie bei einer solchen Firma nicht mehr kaufen?!
Aber Cory Doctorow geht weiter. Wieso haben die überhaupt einen Netzwerk-Zugang, fragt er? Er gibt auch gleich die Antwort: Weil die die Bauern totalüberwachen und die Daten abschnorcheln und das ist die eigentliche Cash Cow bei denen. Money Quote 2:
In the 2017 edition of these exemption hearings, John Deere filed a stunning brief with the Copyright Office: in it, they explained that farmers do not own the tractors they spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on.
In fact, the farmers can’t own these tractors, because the software that animates these tractors (and enforces VIN locks and restrictions on using your own data) belongs to John Deere for the full term of copyright — 90 years — and the farmers merely license that code, and they are bound by the terms of service they have to click “OK” on every time they switch on their ignitions.
Those terms specify that even if a farmer repairs their own tractor, swapping a broken part for a working one, they must pay hundreds of dollars and wait for days for an authorized Deere technician to come out to the end of their lonely country road to key in an unlock code.
This is the system that let the Ukrainian Deere dealership brick those tractors between Melitopol and Chechnya.
So sieht das nämlich aus.
Willkommen in der Dystopie.
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Russians plunder $5M #farm vehicles from #Ukraine -- to find they've been remotely disabled
Some of the machinery was taken to a nearby village, but some of it embarked on a long overland journey to #Chechnya more than 700 miles away. The sophistication of the #machinery, which are equipped with #GPS, meant that its travel could be tracked. It was last tracked to the village of Zakhan Yurt in Chechnya.
The equipment ferried to Chechnya, which included combine harvesters -- can also be controlled remotely. "When the invaders drove the stolen harvesters to Chechnya, they realized that they could not even turn them on, because the harvesters were locked remotely," the contact said.
The #equipment now appears to be languishing at a farm near Grozny. But the contact said that "it seems that the hijackers have found consultants in Russia who are trying to bypass the #protection."
You may think that in this case it hits the right ones, but think about the following scenario: the world is facing a #starvation catastrophe and is in urgent need of tractors for #food production. But the farmer can't pay his debts at the moment. Then the tractors are deactivated regardless of whether people starve to death. Damn #DRM and damn #capitalism - why do people buy such #bullshit #technology?
#news #software #fail #military #crime #agriculture #problem #war #Russia
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#FreeDMO Gets Rid Of DYMO Label Printer DRM
#reverseengineering #toolhacks #bluepill #consumer #diy #drm #dymo #everythingasaservice #i2c #stm32 #thermalprinter #hackaday
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Digital Rights Management - DRM abuse
a tip from Lorenzo :-)
What is DRM
We say a software is protected by DRM when it contains functionality purposed to stop its unauthorized execution by asking for a special "key", often covertly verified (along with other information which may identify the owner of the system) with a remote server.
DRM (Digital Rights Management) is no more about piracy, but about keeping the company's control over end users.
Until the advent of Web 2.0 it served to stop piracy, nowadays it is equivalent to a trojan horse.
My tip
When software which could work offline requires you to go online, this is not only a sign a bad design but also of DRM abuse.
Such ill-designed software often covertly downloads and executes code and shares information with 3rd parties without your consent. Many developers are guilty and it happens with all sorts of games and applications, including those developed by "trusted" companies: be always vigilant for any disclaimer/license during shopping and installation, not hesitating to ask for a refund if the software contains unwelcome DRM!
If possible, try your best to avoid buying software which requires your computer to be connected during usage, because allowing that is equivalent to admitting the purchased good (the software) isn't really yours and giving up control on what code you execute on your hardware.
Tags: #DRM #drmabuse #software #userrights #softwaredesign #economy #piracy
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#AMD is the first to implement #Microsoft #Pluton
AMD is launching its Ryzen 6000 laptop processors today, and they’re the first to include Microsoft’s new Pluton security processor. It’s a new security chip that’s designed to bring #Xbox-like #security to Windows PCs, to secure hardware and cryptographic keys.
#WTF they implemented the #DRM from Microsoft inside their CPUs 😱 i don't want a Trojan Horse inside my CPU 😵😭💔
#technology #future #fail #software #hardware #news #omg #computer
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Links 3/3/2022: Mozilla’s #DRM Ads and New From Banana Pi • Techrights ⚓ http://techrights.org/2022/03/03/new-from-banana-pi/ ䷉ #Techrights #GNU #Linux #FreeSW | ♾ Gemini address: gemini://gemini.techrights.org/2022/03/03/new-from-banana-pi/
As the tide goes out at #Mozilla, they now run full page Disney ads on their Web site. • Tux Machines ⇨ http://www.tuxmachines.org/node/162081 #firefox #drm #TuxMachines
Proton Experimental Beta gets Steam Deck performance fix for ELDEN RING | GamingOnLinux ⚓ https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2022/02/proton-experimental-beta-gets-steam-deck-performance-fix-for-elden-ring/ ䷉ #GamingOnLinux #GNU #Linux #Games #DRM
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● NEWS ● #Techdirt #DRM ☞ New #RightToRepair Bill Targets Obnoxious Auto Industry Behavior https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20220222/07245148520/new-right-to-repair-bill-targets-obnoxious-auto-industry-behavior.shtml
#Dymo Causes a Stir by Adding #DRM to Printer Paper - SoylentNews ⚓ https://soylentnews.org/article.pl?sid=22/02/25/044254 ䷉ #soylentnews