Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.Mar 16Pluralistic: Tools vs uses (16 Mar 2026)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/03/16/whittle-a-webserver/
As @pluralistic's has pointed out over and over, there is no longer even the pretense of a reason to keep enforcing the DMCA's enshittogenic "anti-circumvention" rules. Imposed on the world by US corporate interests through "trade agreements" they are now openly breaking. We must convince our lawmakers to decriminalise adversarial interoperability, and regulate in support of the Right to Repair, vendor-neutral technical standards, etc.
Copyright Kills Competition
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.techdirt.com/2026/02/13/copyright-kills-competition/
"What if there was a way for a business to transform any conduct it disliked into a felony, harnessing the power of the state to threaten anyone who acted in a way that displeased the company with a long prison sentence and six-figure fines?
Surprise! That actually exists! It's called Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the "#anticircumvention" clause, which establishes five-year sentences and $500k fines for anyone who bypasses an "effective access control" for a copyrighted work."
Let Cory (@pluralistic) explain it. He's good at explaining #enshittification, or as the rest of us call it, the 21st goddamn century.
As an aside, there should be a branch of the Judicial tree that is staffed by people who understand technology and the implications therein. (Just sayin, as someone who had thousands of pages of material stolen "fairly" for LLM.) These courts don't understand what they're ruling on.
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/#effective-means-of-access-control
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.Feb 7Pluralistic: End of the line for video essays (07 Feb 2026)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/07/aimsters-revenge/
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> I donʼt know how to make it but Iʼd be happy to promote it!
Plenty of people in Aotearoa could make it, but first we need to decriminalise it. With a Right to Repair bill that protects technological circumvention - for otherwise legal purposes - as a basic right in a democratic society.
I mean, computer scientists being allowed to publish and speak about circumvention is part of basic academic freedom, which is violated by current anti-circumvention laws.
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.Jan 29Pluralistic: Disenshittification Nation (29 Jan 2026)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/post-american-canada/
Recht guter Beitrag:
"Zeitfragen. Feature: Im Netz der USA - Europas schwieriger Weg aus der digitalen Abhängigkeit"
Episode webpage: https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/im-netz-der-usa-europas-schwieriger-weg-aus-der-digitalen-abhaengigkeit-100.html
siehe dazu auch den Talk von @pluralistic am ccc25:
"Podcast – Cory Doctorow's craphound.com: The Post-American Internet (39C3, Hamburg, Dec 28)"
Episode webpage: https://craphound.com/news/2026/01/01/the-post-american-internet-39c3-hamburg-dec-28/
#digitalsovereignty #opensource #PublicMoneyPublicCode #SchleswigHolstein #39c3 #righttofix #anticircumvention #trump #tarifs #eff
Now that the Orange One is threatening new tariffs until Greenland is sold out it is high time to make @pluralistic idea of repealing anti-circumvention laws such as The European Copyright and Information Society Directive. It would be a powerful and creative way to strike back at US imperialist expansionism.
Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.Jan 17Pluralistic: The world needs an Ireland for disenshittification (17 Jan 2026)
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/17/erin-lets-go/
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