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diff --git a/content-org/blog.org b/content-org/blog.org index 27b7954..7ee231d 100644 --- a/content-org/blog.org +++ b/content-org/blog.org @@ -8,13 +8,42 @@ #+HUGO_SECTION: blog -* 2024 [53/53] :@blog: +* 2024 [53/54] :@blog: :PROPERTIES: :EXPORT_HUGO_SECTION: blog/2024 :EXPORT_HUGO_CUSTOM_FRONT_MATTER+: :image_dir "blog/images" :image_max_width 600 :EXPORT_HUGO_PAIRED_SHORTCODES: image yt :END: +** TODO Never invest in DRM-ed content +When I was young and dumb, I bought a few movies on iTunes. +I can still access them, as long as I have my AppleTV (which is it's last days). +But I will never invest in an Apple Device unless Tim Cook resigns and someone makes a 180* for the company. + +I *bought* them, but I don't own them. +All of this is becasue DRM. +And breaking DRM is a crime, as per DMCA. + +In a completely unrelated news, Louis Rossmann talks about people loosing access to their bought online content. + +https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtTdOBCLsyo + +It's not that I am against digital purchases, but they need to be *[[/blog/2023/digital-ownership/][purchases]]*. +Not a file poisoned by DRM, which removes any ownership. + +As with most of modern computer software, the crime is the only way forward. +If you want to pay for something, be it on Steam of iTunes, you need to break the DRM. + +But the solution is simple: never buy anything that has any form of DRM. +It's better to subscribe to something like Netflix. +It still sucks, but at least they don't lie in your face. + +The better solution: purchase directly from authors (if there is an option) and download illegal copies of anything else. +You can /share/ them with your friends! +For this you need to buy hardware that is not locked, so no consoles or popular mobile phones - which is an additional plus! + +Also: don't call it piracy, this word implies that you made something immoral. +Pirates murdered people! ** DONE Crowd Strike and single point of failure CLOSED: [2024-07-22 Mon 21:35] |