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That would be possibly illegal, requires someone highly specialized to care about each and every one of your games, and assumes there won’t be a crackdown on th
by drdexebtjl 2mo ago
That would be possibly illegal, requires someone highly specialized to care about each and every one of your games, and assumes there won’t be a crackdown on the openness and anonymity of the Internet that currently allows the distribution of pirate software.
We need to have this right codified into law before we lose it.
- inigyou 2mo agoNot just possibly, the DMCA makes it a felony to remove or bypass any copy protection measure, even if it doesn't work very well.
- drdexebtjl 2mo agoNot every jurisdiction has the DMCA, so that’s why I said possibly. It’s definitely illegal in the US.
- inigyou 2mo agoEvery jurisdiction was bullied into adopting this provision as part of every trade deal the US ever makes. Cory Doctorow wrote about it. Look for the keyword "anticircumvention".
- drdexebtjl 2mo agoCouldn’t find it. I know for a fact it isn’t illegal in my country.
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- inigyou 2mo agoIt's coming. https://www.iipa.org/files/uploads/2026/01/BRAZIL-2026-COPYEDITED-12.23.25-2.pdf https://www.iipa.org/files/uploads/2026/01/BRAZIL-2026-COPYE... (Search "circumvention")
- drdexebtjl 2mo agoThere’s a huge difference between the US bullying us into making this illegal, and the US throwing a fit in a report suggesting we should do it. We’ve been on this watchlist before. There’s no such law being proposed right now.