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> To all the engineers working on this stuff, I hope you're happy that your work is essentially destroying the world that you and I grew up in. I recently quit
by pipo234 2y ago
> To all the engineers working on this stuff, I hope you're happy that your work is essentially destroying the world that you and I grew up in.
I recently quit my job, developing among others the means to "protect" media using DRM. While this was not a primary motivation, I'm glad to somewhat clean my hands.
The technology (dubbed Common Encryption) is a bunch of smoke and mirrors that a childishly easy to hack around. Yet clearly aimed against good faith consumers.
- immibis 2y agoThat's a good job - people who don't like DRM (you) get more money, and the bad DRM is a distraction that delays the implementation of good DRM.
- account42 2y agoOn the other hand, even weak DRM trains users to accept it while power users are less likely to rally against it if they can find workarounds for themselves. So you don't really end up delaying the implementation of good DRM but helping prime its acceptance.