Seit zwei, drei Tagen sagt mir die onleihe, die Erstellung eines Downloadlinks für mein Medium sei fehlgeschlagen. Auf einem anderen Reader funktioniert es, nachdem da ein OS Update gemacht wurde. Für mein Modell gibt es aber kein aktuelles Update. Jemand ne Idee, was da dahinter stecken könnte? Irgendeine Änderung beim f***ing DRM?
#onleihe #drm #ebook #reader

"But think about the artists!" is a favorite refrain of so-called "intellectual property" enthusiasts (aka corporations.) Hear from one #DefectiveByDesign (DBD) guest writer and musician about how #DRM totally cramped his style: https://u.fsf.org/1rx #EndDRM #Music

This week in the Weekly News Roundup, LG TVs go full dystopian, AI builds their own malware, and EU bans AI Agents in meetings. Also, Synology embraces DRM and we visit SillyVille.
#weeklynewsroundup #smarttv #drm

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All Articles:
https://switchedtolinux.com/news/your-tv-is-emotionally-targeting-you

"But think about the artists!" is a favorite refrain of so-called "intellectual property" enthusiasts (aka corporations.) Hear from one #DefectiveByDesign (DBD) guest writer and musician about how #DRM totally cramped his style: https://u.fsf.org/1rx #EndDRM #Music

One of my significant fears about the EU Cyber Resilience Act is that it could be abused by vendors to force DRM-like limitations into consumer products, as Synology is regrettably attempting. https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/04/synology-could-bring-certified-drive-requirements-to-more-nas-devices/

One of my goals in engaging strongly over the CRA and especially its standards is to ensure that they are written to prevent this, as far as possible. We have now placed many #OpenSource experts into EU standards committees as a result. Can you help?

#CRA @EUCommission #DRM @osi

Putting this on my to-do list: jailbreak your Kindle e-reader :)

https://youtu.be/Qtk7ERwlIAk?si=aPltQkWhmqzWmtEl

"But think about the artists!" is a favorite refrain of so-called "intellectual property" enthusiasts (aka corporations.) Hear from one #DefectiveByDesign (DBD) guest writer and musician about how #DRM totally cramped his style: https://u.fsf.org/1rx #EndDRM #Music

Always check for the inclusion of #Denuvo or other kernel-level #DRM before buying a new game. That horrible Digital Ransomware Mechanic should not be on any computer, should not be in any game, and should not exist. Nor should anything like it. I've been a strong opponent of DRM since the days of SecuRom, and will never support it willingly. Companies who include DRM show they don't care about their customers. Vote with your wallet and don't take their shit even if they try to paint it gold.

"Most modern cars have some kind of internet connection, but Tesla goes much further. By design, its cars receive "over-the-air" updates, including updates that are adverse to drivers' interests. For example, if you stop paying the monthly subscription fee that entitles you to use your battery's whole charge, Tesla will send a wireless internet command to your car to restrict your driving to only half of your battery's charge.

This means that your Tesla is designed to follow instructions that you don't want it to follow, and, by design, those instructions can fundamentally alter your car's operating characteristics. For example, if you miss a payment on your Tesla, it can lock its doors and immobilize itself, then, when the repo man arrives, it will honk its horn, flash its lights, back out of its parking spot, and unlock itself so that it can be driven away:
(...)
Some of the ways that your Tesla can be wirelessly downgraded (like disabling your battery) are disclosed at the time of purchase. Others (like locking you out and summoning a repo man) are secret. But whether disclosed or secret, both kinds of downgrade depend on the genuinely bizarre idea that a computer that you own, that is in your possession, can be relied upon to follow orders from the internet even when you don't want it to. This is weird enough when we're talking about a set-top box that won't let you record a TV show – but when we're talking about a computer that you put your body into and race down the road at 80mph inside of, it's frankly terrifying."

https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/15/musklemons/#more-like-edison-amirite

This is news from a month ago, but apparently YouTube is currently experimenting with adding DRM to all videos, but only if you're using certain clients and your user is in the respective A/B test group.

Normal browsers are not affected, but yt-dlp for example is. (Again, only for _some_ users.)

https://github.com/yt-dlp/yt-dlp/issues/12563

Hacker News has some additional explanations:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43321145

In short: No reason to panic, but some concern is appropriate.

DRM ruins efforts at historical preservation. If all of our media is locked up in digital streaming platforms -- which will go under eventually -- how will it be preserved for future generations? Live DRM-free instead: https://u.fsf.org/1aj #EndDRM #DRM

New blogpost: "DRM: Digital Restrictions Management Damages Reading Magic"

There was an interesting discussion on the fediverse last night about DRM (digital restrictions management, a form of copy protection designed to limit how you can read the books you buy) and ebooks.

My thoughts about DRM, paying authors, and how, while I very much dislike DRM on the books I want to buy, I can see why an author might be concerned about someone asking how to buy their books without it.

https://neilzone.co.uk/2025/04/drm-digital-restrictions-management-damages-reading-magic/

I want to remove the DRM from all the Audible books I have purchased over the years, 300+. Having a hard time figuring out if I have the legal right to do that. #drm #audible

Flashback to this blog post from former campaigns intern Leonardo Vignini intern which details the history of #DRM: where did Digital Restrictions Management start, how did it get this bad, and what can we do about it? https://u.fsf.org/34g #DefectiveByDesign #EndDRM

Digital Restriction Management = DRM

https://anonsys.net/display/bf69967c-1567-fc1e-33b5-312556293098

"Donald Trump’s tariffs demand a response. Around the world, that response has defaulted to retaliatory tariffs — a strategy with severe and obvious drawbacks. After years of pandemic shocks and greedflation, people around the globe have severe inflation fatigue, and few governments are eager to risk further price hikes. And while the world is rightly furious at Trump’s talk of annexation and other belligerent acts, that anger is unlikely to translate into popular support for higher prices on everyday goods. If there’s one lesson that politicians everywhere have metabolized over the past twenty-four months, it’s that any government that presides over inflationary price rises is likely to be out of a job come the next election.

Luckily there is another policy response to tariffs — one that will substantially lower prices for America’s tariff-clobbered trading partners while incubating profitable, export-oriented domestic tech firms. These firms could sell tools and services to local businesses, to the benefit of the world’s news and culture industries, software firms, and consumers alike.

That response? Repealing “anticircumvention laws” that prohibits domestic firms from reverse-engineering “digital locks.” These anticircumvention laws stop the world’s farmers from fixing their John Deere tractors; they stop mechanics from diagnosing your car; they stop technologists from creating their own app stores for phones and games consoles."

https://jacobin.com/2025/04/ip-anticircumvention-tech-trump-tariffs

DRM ruins efforts at historical preservation. If all of our media is locked up in digital streaming platforms -- which will go under eventually -- how will it be preserved for future generations? Live DRM-free instead: https://u.fsf.org/1aj #EndDRM #DRM

Buying physical games means nothing now. Looks like Indiana Jones on the PS5 is just 20 GB on the disc and requires you to download the whole game.
#ps5 #gamepreservation #drm #indianajones

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0P6-qjypBU