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There might be special rules around DRM that go beyond normal copyright?
by eru 3mo ago
There might be special rules around DRM that go beyond normal copyright?
- jdub 3mo agoLadies and gentlemen, the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (which is terrible, but I would be delighted if they breached it and got thoroughly spanked)
- sidewndr46 3mo agoso if I base64 encode my blog, have some Javascript that 'validates' an authorized viewer and then decodes the base64 into HTML which is added to the DOM does that constitute DRM ?
- pessimizer 3mo agoYes.
- goldlimetea 3mo ago[dead]
- efreak 3mo agoThe DMCA doesn't care exactly how the authorization works, it only cares that it's needed. Quote from Wikipedia[0] of DMCA section 103: > No person shall circumvent a technological measure that effectively controls access to a work protected under this title. > "circumvent a technological measure" means to descramble a scrambled work, to decrypt an encrypted work, or otherwise to avoid, bypass, remove, deactivate, or impair a technological measure, without the authority of the copyright owner; and > a technological measure "effectively controls access to a work" if the measure, in the ordinary course of its operation, requires the application of information, or a process or a treatment, with the authority of the copyright owner, to gain access to the work. [0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention_laws#Circumvention_of_Access_Controls https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-circumvention_laws#Circum...
- goldlimetea 3mo ago[dead]
- ACCount37 3mo agoI would be delighted if AI companies got together and thoroughly dismantled DMCA. That atrocity of a law was a blight upon digital freedom since the day it came to exist. DRM should never have been given any legal protection - and I would push for numerous forms of DRM to be outlawed instead.