Damien Sorresso

"Why should we give your store exclusive distribution of our movie for 90 days?"

"Our users can't even take screenshots of your movie."

"Oh great!"
https://zeppelin.flights/@jsnell/114089413508530008

Jason Snell (@[email protected])

I'll just add that almost every example of taking screenshots of DRM material would be fair use and therefore legal. https://mastodon.social/@daringfireball/114089294709103856

The Incomparable
Mar 2, 2025 at 12:35amIvory for iOS
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@enhancedscurry I’ve always been under the impression that it’s blocked out for screenshots deep in the rendering pipeline because that’s also the best place to prevent screen recording of DRM content from working. That is, screenshots are blocked for free, and no one particularly cares to change that.