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Some people think DRM is the potentially immoral thing.
by arminiusreturns 4y ago
Some people think DRM is the potentially immoral thing.
- giantg2 4y agoDepending on the exact implementation and situation, maybe. Do you have a real life example?
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- arminiusreturns 4y agoFound an interesting one: https://www.zdnet.com/article/another-real-world-example-of-why-drm-is-evil/ https://www.zdnet.com/article/another-real-world-example-of-... Also, a favorite: https://gizmodo.com/amazon-secretly-removes-1984-from-the-kindle-5317703 https://gizmodo.com/amazon-secretly-removes-1984-from-the-ki...
- giantg2 4y agoOh, yeah. Those are pretty bad. Basically you bought content and then they removed it. DRM in general shouldn't be immoral, but it can be if it's abused like that.
- account42 4y agoThe entire purpose of DRM is to keep controlling something after selling it to you. I'd consider that immoral.
- giantg2 4y agoThat depends. A legitimate use in my view is to prevent distribution of duplicates. This is pretty common with things like software licensing.
- arminiusreturns 4y agoI think the point is a rejection that software should presume to have that power, and also that prevention of duplicates is against the four freedoms (eg, yeah, bad software licensing causes issues because it opens the slippery slope door to control of a users device against thier wishes).