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prplcdclnw@diasp.eu
David

"If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing"

by Cory Doctorow

https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/

As Tyler James Hill wrote: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing":\
https://bsky.app/profile/tylerjameshill.bsky.social/post/3kflw2lvam42n

I proposed that all Wired endorsements for DRM-encumbered products should come with this disclaimer:\
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WARNING: THIS DEVICE’S FEATURES ARE SUBJECT TO REVOCATION WITHOUT NOTICE, ACCORDING TO TERMS SET OUT IN SECRET NEGOTIATIONS. YOUR INVESTMENT IS CONTINGENT ON THE GOODWILL OF THE WORLD’S MOST PARANOID, TECHNOPHOBIC ENTERTAINMENT EXECS. THIS DEVICE AND DEVICES LIKE IT ARE TYPICALLY USED TO CHARGE YOU FOR THINGS YOU USED TO GET FOR FREE — BE SURE TO FACTOR IN THE PRICE OF BUYING ALL YOUR MEDIA OVER AND OVER AGAIN. AT NO TIME IN HISTORY HAS ANY ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY GOTTEN A SWEET DEAL LIKE THIS FROM THE ELECTRONICS PEOPLE, BUT THIS TIME THEY’RE GETTING A TOTAL WALK. HERE, PUT THIS IN YOUR MOUTH, IT’LL MUFFLE YOUR WHIMPERS.\
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Wired didn't take me up on this suggestion.

Everybody loves this racket. In Poland, a team of security researchers at the OhMyHack conference just presented their teardown of the anti-repair features in NEWAG Impuls locomotives. NEWAG boobytrapped their trains to try and detect if they've been independently serviced, and to respond to any unauthorized repairs by bricking themselves:\
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https://mamot.fr/@q3k@hackerspace.pl/111528162905209453 \
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Poland is part of the EU, meaning that they are required to uphold the provisions of the 2001 EU Copyright Directive, including Article 6, which bans this kind of reverse-engineering. The researchers are planning to present their work again at the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg this month – Germany is also a party to the EUCD. The threat to researchers from presenting this work is real – but so is the threat to conferences that host them:\
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https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/researchers-face-legal-threats-over-sdmi-hack/

#drm #playstation #wired #hewlett-packard #printer-ink #ownership #piracy #copying #enshitification #right-to-repair #reverse-engineering #rentiers #ip #intellectual-property

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diane_a@diasp.org
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#enshitification

#Google announced that starting in June 2024, ad blockers such as #uBlock Origin will be disabled in Chrome 127 and later with the rollout of Manifest V3

The new #Chrome manifest will prevent using custom filters and stops on demand updates of blocklist. Only #Google authorized updates to browser extension will be allowed in the future, which mean an automatic win for Google in their battle to stop YouTube #AdBlockers .

ManifestV3 is deceitful and threatening to your privacy, and now is a good time to switch to #Firefox and/or #TorBrowser if you haven't done so already!

EFF (@eff) on Google’s Manifest V3:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/googles-manifest-v3-still-hurts-privacy-security-innovation

Chrome Manifest V3 Transition Timeline (2023-11-16)

⁠https://developer.chrome.com/blog/resuming-the-transition-to-mv3/

Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening

Manifest V3, Google Chrome’s soon-to-be definitive basket of changes to the world of web browser extensions, has been framed by its authors as “a step in the direction of privacy, security, and performance.” But we think these changes are a raw...

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diane_a@diasp.org
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No

no, i do not consent to your tracking cookies;
no, i do not want to sign up for your newsletter;
no, i will not disable my malware/adblocker;
no, i will not enable push notifications;
i don’t give a damn that you changed your “privacy” policy, this is the first time i viewed opened your website anyway;
i don’t care if this site looks better in the app, fix your fucking website then;
oh, i need chrome to view this page? what year are we in, 2000?;
i no longer want to read the full article if it means i have to create account;
and no, i do not want to sign in with my nonexistent google account either

for fucks sake

#JavaScript #enshitification

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diane_a@diasp.org
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“The US library system, once the best in the world, faces death by a thousand cuts,”

“The traditional practice of libraries is to buy or acquire published materials, preserve and catalog them, and lend them widely and confidentially. (…) But now, in the digital age, every one of these functions has been denied to libraries, or recently even declared illegal in the United States.”

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/oct/09/us-library-system-attack-digital-licensing

#Libraries #books #USA #enshitification

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diane_a@diasp.org
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"It's just raw capitalism and enshitification [1] which is why I'm going to be the annoying, stubborn guy and stop using proprietary platforms, especially ones where I'm inadvertently contributing to building some company's dataset or usage state that is just waiting to be later milked once the platform decides their users are too entrenched.

I was on digg. I was on reddit. I was on Twitter. I was on Facebook. Every platform has its day, and I like investing in things for the long term. It's a much harder battle, but even my code is now used by MS/GitHub to train ML. It's so hostile and folks are so used to it that I feel like I have to tip-toe around saying "No, this isn't okay for me.""

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36296161
#USA #capitalism #enshitification

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