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It's not misleading, they check for DRM presence and that's bad enough. > but reason activists hate DRM is that it enables service providers to go a step beyon
by type0 6y ago
It's not misleading, they check for DRM presence and that's bad enough.
> but reason activists hate DRM is that it enables service providers to go a step beyond traditional fingerprinting and gain a truly unique identifier.
The reason is that in some places on Earth you can be sentenced for violation of special computer laws prohibiting you to even look at such code and disclose what it does, you just run it and see what happens
- milkytron 6y agomaybe this a silly question, but isn't that like most closed source code?
- Polylactic_acid 6y agoNo. You can basically always decompile proprietary software and work out how it works. And even publish most of your findings. In some places like the US, if that code is DRM its now illegal to study (Under the DMCA specifically I think).
- brokenmachine 6y agoIs there a specific definition that makes something DRM? Sounds like all software companies should add some trivial DRM only for the specific purpose of exposing people to legal risk if they attempt to reverse engineer their code.
- zucker42 6y agoReverse engineering is generally legal. Reverse engineering DRM can potentially get you a lengthy jail sentence.
- Mindwipe 6y ago> The reason is that in some places on Earth you can be sentenced for violation of special computer laws prohibiting you to even look at such code and disclose what it does, you just run it and see what happens You couldn't in this case, no license object is served. It literally just asks the browser which systems it supports.