In one of the coolest and more outrageous repair stories in quite some time, three white-hat hackers helped a regional rail company in southwest Poland unbrick a train that had been artificially rendered inoperable by the train’s manufacturer after an independent maintenance company worked on it. The train’s manufacturer is...
In a response to a post from the AntiDRM Twitter account, Ubisoft Support has clarified that users who don’t sign in to their account can potentially lose access to Ubisoft games they’ve purchased. The initial post from AntiDRM featured a snippet of an e-mail sent to a user from Ubisoft notifying them that their account had...
If you buy an #HP#printer and sign up for the optional HP Plus #service, you'll get a #firmware#update that will FORCE you to #purchaseonly new HP #ink cartridges — for the life of your printer. And once that firmware update happens, there is no way to undo it.
@bookstodon
I use #Linux as the main OS on my computers, but also use Windows 10 on one.
For the sole reason to download the #ebooks I buy.
I play the occasional Windows-only game as well, but those I can do without.
I can't do without ebooks.
I really, really wish there was an open standard for getting any ebook, with or without #drm, onto any device without having to rely on a single piece of software from one company. #EU, do something! #DailyRant#PetPeeve#ADE#AdobeDigitalEditions
(Of course, if you're not in the US, they've already made the choice for you. Thanks terrible international intellectual property laws!)
Until today, my experience buying #ebooks from Humble Bundle was they were always available unencumbered by #DRM. I have hundreds of #DRMFree#epubs built up over the past decade.
The #PratchettDiscworldHumbleBundle is through #Rakuten#Kobo's ebook shop, and all the books are encumbered by #Adobe and the #AdobeDigitalEdition DRM. There is zero indication that this DRM is included on the bundle page itself. and it explicitly says "Use on Any Device". On the #RakutenKobo page itself, the only indication the file has DRM is some small bottom-text that says "Download Options: EPUB 3 (Adobe DRM)".
Also, DRM Digital Editions will also "helpfully" install Norton for you as well. It's like the dogshit you just stepped in offered to stab you in the kidney, too.
This is shameful and disgusting from Humble Bundle. I know Humble Bundle got acquired years ago by IGN/Ziff Davis, but they'd avoided the levels of #enshittification to make me stop using them.
20 years ago, I got in a (friendly) public spat with #ChrisAnderson, who was then the editor in chief of @WIRED. I'd publicly noted my disappointment with glowing Wired reviews of #DRM-encumbered digital devices, prompting Anderson to call me unrealistic for expecting the magazine to condemn gadgets for their DRM:
Wow this is bad. Some Italian researchers decided there wasn't enough anti-right-to-repair hardware #DRM in the world already, and developed a way to physically profile and recognize individual battery cells that can be combined with classic DRM technologies to prevent non-OEM battery cells from working inside a device, even if the classic DRM portion is circumvented. Whyyyyyy?!
If you are horrified by the Web Environment Integrity proposal by Google (#DRM for ads), stop using Chrome and switch to Firefox and block ads everywhere.
The only eyeballs left for Google to show ads are the ones protected by ad blockers. That’s the highest growth opportunity they have, and we cannot let them have it.
Bei Qobuz kann man ganze Alben nun offenbar nur noch mit einer extra Software heruntergeladen. Das ging bis vor kurzem noch als einfaches tar.gz file oder Zip.
Natürlich wird keine Version für Linux angeboten. 🙃
Drecksladen. War dann wohl mein letzter Kauf dort.
Edit: Wollte gerade dem Support schreiben. Supportseite verweist auf ein Menü, das auf der Website nicht existiert. 😩
An eating competition involving tacos, a branding challenge, and a homage to the great María Félix that gave us amazing runways. What did you think of this episode? Share your opinion here!
Deals on Kindles may seem attractive, but don't forget Amazon is one of the most devoted peddlers of DRM. We prefer books we can loan to our friends, free of restriction and prying eyes. Read more about how to live DRM-free: https://u.fsf.org/1aj#EndDRM#DRM#BoycottAmazon#Amazon
The library is open! We get the first reading challenge of Drag Race Mexico....ever! Plus, the queens have to act in their first Rusical of the season: Dragapulco Shore. On the runway, the category is Gold....
I just learned that libraries cannot purchase #Audible exclusives and I feel absolutely enraged. Then I found Libro.fm thanks to @pluralistic and I learned their #books are #DRM free, yours forever and a local bookstore of your choice receives part of your subscription or purchase. I tried their app and it is nicer, prettier and more user friendly than Audible, so I subscribed and picked #TheInternetCon to help seize the means of Computation ✊
Anastasia Soare herself makes a video appearence to present the mini-challenge, and the queens perform their first ever snatch game! Category for the runway is... Supernatural....
My partner purchased the new Zelda game and #Nintendo won't let me play: "this user is not authorised to run this game". Even though it's on the same device in which where she plays. Only one user can run it and only one savegame slot. I can't believe Nintendo would expect cohabiting family members to purchase multiple individual licenses, this extreme #drm is ridiculous.
#DRM 🏴☠️
Je me note cette citation, elle est parfaite:
« Pirater ne peut pas être du vol si payer ne vous permet pas de posséder. »
("Piracy can't be stealing if paying for it isn't owning" ; source : https://peoplemaking.games/@gamesbymanuel/110667316416843436)
Goggle's "Web Integrity" project has been widely condemned as a trojan horse for bringing DRM crippleware to the web. The battle against it has been won. But the war against Goggle's attempt to iThing-ize Android continues;
My old e-reader had some problems and needed to be replaced. I ended up exploring the hell that is DRM (copy protection) on e-books and tried to break the restraints so I can read my own legally acquired books with FOSS software. I wrote a blog post on it that describes my frustrations (another ideological rant) but hopefully also helps others in a similar position with some practical guidance: https://proycon.anaproy.nl/posts/do-not-restrict-me/
Polish Hackers Repaired Trains the Manufacturer Artificially Bricked. Now The Train Company Is Threatening Them (www.404media.co)
In one of the coolest and more outrageous repair stories in quite some time, three white-hat hackers helped a regional rail company in southwest Poland unbrick a train that had been artificially rendered inoperable by the train’s manufacturer after an independent maintenance company worked on it. The train’s manufacturer is...
Ubisoft Can Delete Inactive Accounts, Making Users Lose Access to Their Games (gamerant.com)
In a response to a post from the AntiDRM Twitter account, Ubisoft Support has clarified that users who don’t sign in to their account can potentially lose access to Ubisoft games they’ve purchased. The initial post from AntiDRM featured a snippet of an e-mail sent to a user from Ubisoft notifying them that their account had...
Drag Race Mexico [S01E03 - Drag Business] - Post-episode Discussion
An eating competition involving tacos, a branding challenge, and a homage to the great María Félix that gave us amazing runways. What did you think of this episode? Share your opinion here!
All the runway looks from Drag Race Mexico episode 5 (Girl Band). Category is: Mexican Flowers!
Drag Race Mexico [S01E04 - Dragapulco Shore: The Rusical] - Post-episode discussion
The library is open! We get the first reading challenge of Drag Race Mexico....ever! Plus, the queens have to act in their first Rusical of the season: Dragapulco Shore. On the runway, the category is Gold....
Drag Race Mexico [S01E06 - Snatch Game] - Post-episode Discussion
Anastasia Soare herself makes a video appearence to present the mini-challenge, and the queens perform their first ever snatch game! Category for the runway is... Supernatural....