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Thu, 27 Sep 2018 09:50:34 -0400 (EDT) |
CVSROOT: /webcvs/www
Module name: www
Changes by: Therese Godefroy <th_g> 18/09/27 09:50:34
Modified files:
proprietary : proprietary-drm.html
Log message:
Add missing items & regenerate from recfile.
CVSWeb URLs:
http://web.cvs.savannah.gnu.org/viewcvs/www/proprietary/proprietary-drm.html?cvsroot=www&r1=1.26&r2=1.27
Patches:
Index: proprietary-drm.html
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retrieving revision 1.26
retrieving revision 1.27
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@@ -28,191 +33,252 @@
to <a href="http://DefectiveByDesign.org/";>abolish DRM</a>.
</p>
-<ul>
-<li><p>DRM does more nastiness to published works than merely stopping
-people from looking at and/or copying them. Even when it allows you to
-look, it harasses you in many ways. Cory Doctorow's article presents
-<a href="https://boingboing.net/2010/02/18/infographic-buying-d.html";>
-DVDs as an example</a>.</p>
-
-<p>We condemn the propaganda term “pirate” when it is
-applied to people that share copies. Many of these DVDs are made and
-distributed commercially; in reference to that practice,
-“pirate” might be partly justified. But not when they
-protect users from harassment.</p>
-
-<p>The fundamental cause of this harassment, and the fundamental wrong
-of the DRM in DVDs, is the requirement to use nonfree software to play
-the DVD. Fortunately we have free replacement software.
-</p>
-</li>
-
-<li><p>The Netflix Android app <a
-href="http://torrentfreak.com/netflix-cracks-down-on-vpn-and-proxy-pirates-150103/";>
-forces the use of Google DNS</a>. This is one of the methods that Netflix
-uses to enforce the geolocation restrictions dictated by the movie
-studios.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li><p><a
-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content_Protection";>
-HDCP</a> is a DRM system that encrypts video and audio data from the
-processor to the monitor. It is implemented mainly in hardware, but
-the system software also participates, which makes it qualify as
-malware.</p>
-
-<p>Besides controlling users, HDCP denies their fair-use rights and
-causes numerous practical problems.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li><p>iTunes videos have DRM, which allows Apple to <a
-href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairPlay";>dictate where its customers can
-watch the videos they purchased</a>.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li><p>The DMCA and the EU Copyright Directive make it <a
-href="https://boingboing.net/2017/11/25/la-la-la-cant-hear-you.html";>
-illegal to study how iOS cr...apps spy on users</a>, because this
-would require circumventing the iOS DRM.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>Google now allows Android apps to detect whether a device has been
-rooted, <a
href="http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/05/13/netflix-confirms-blocking-rootedunlocked-devices-app-still-working-now/";>and
refuse to install
-if so</a>. The Netflix app uses this ability to enforce DRM by refusing
-to install on rooted Android devices.</p>
-
-<p>Update: Google <i>intentionally</i> changed Android so that apps
-<a
href="https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-use-of-google-drm-means-rooted-android-devices-are-banned-170515/";>can
detect rooted devices and refuse to
-run on them</a>. The Netflix app is proprietary malware, and one
-shouldn't use it. However, that does not make what Google has done
-any less wrong.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li><p>Windows DRM
-files <a
href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/02/02/231229/windows-drm-protected-files-used-to-decloak-tor-browser-users";>can
-be used to identify people browsing through Tor</a>. The vulnerability
-exists only if you use Windows.
-</p></li>
-
-<li>
- <p>Chrome <a
href="http://boingboing.net/2017/01/30/google-quietly-makes-optiona.html";>implements
- DRM</a>. So does Chromium, through nonfree software that is
- effectively part of it.</p>
-
- <p><a
href="https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=686430";>More
information</a>.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li><p>Android <a
href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/drm/package-summary.html";>contains
-facilities specifically to support DRM.</a></p>
-</li>
-
-<li><p>HP's firmware downgrade <a
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/20/hp-inkjet-printers-unofficial-cartridges-software-update";>imposed
-DRM on some printers, which now refuse to function with third-party
-ink cartridges</a>.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>Oculus Rift games
-now <a
href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vv77ea/new-oculus-drm-cross-platform";>have
-DRM meant to prevent running them on other systems</a>.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>The <a href="http://michaelweinberg.org/post/137045828005/free-the-cube";>
-“Cube” 3D printer was designed with DRM</a>: it won't accept
-third-party printing materials. It is the Keurig of printers. Now it is
-being discontinued, which means that eventually authorized materials won't
-be available and the printers may become unusable.</p>
-
-<p>With a <a href="http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/aleph-objects";>
-printer that gets the Respects Your Freedom</a>, this problem would not
-even be a remote possibility.</p>
-
-<p>How pitiful that the author of that article says that there was
-“nothing wrong” with designing the device to restrict users in
-the first place. This is like putting a “cheat me and mistreat me”
-sign on your chest. We should know better: we should condemn all companies
-that take advantage of people like him. Indeed, it is the acceptance of
-their unjust practice that teaches people to be doormats.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p>Phillips “smart” lightbulbs <a
-href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151214/07452133070/lightbulb-drm-philips-locks-purchasers-out-third-party-bulbs-with-firmware-update.shtml";>
-have been designed not to interact with other companies' smart
-lightbulbs</a>.</p>
-
-<p>If a product is “smart”, and you didn't build it, it is
-cleverly serving its manufacturer <em>against you</em>.</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p><a href="http://techin.oureverydaylife.com/kindle-drm-17841.html";>
-The Amazon Kindle has DRM</a>. That article is flawed in that it
-fails to treat DRM as an ethical question; it takes for granted that
-whatever Amazon might do to its users is legitimate. It refers to DRM
-as digital “rights” management, which is the spin term
-used to promote DRM. Nonetheless it serves as a reference for the
-facts.
-</p>
-
-<p>
-We refer to that product as the
-<a href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html"> Amazon Swindle </a>
-because of this and <a href="/philosophy/ebooks.html">
-other malicious functionalities</a>.
-</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/2007/08/aacs-tentacles/";>DRM
-in Windows</a>, introduced to cater to <a href="#bluray">Bluray</a>
-disks. (The article talks about how the same malware would later be
-introduced in MacOS. That had not been done at the time, but it was
-done subsequently.)
-</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/02/adobe-pushes-drm-flash";>
-DRM in Flash Player</a>.
-</p>
-</li>
-
-<li><p>Adobe made “Digital Editions,” the e-reader used by most
-US libraries, spy on the user
-<a
href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/drm-strikes-again-3575860/";>for
the sake of DRM.</a></p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p><a
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20131007102857/http://www.nclnet.org/technology/73-digital-rights-management/124-whos-driving-the-copyright-laws-consumers-insist-on-the-right-to-back-it-up";>
-DVDs and <span id="bluray">Bluray</span> disks have DRM</a>.
-</p>
-
-<p>That page uses spin terms that favor DRM,
-including <a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#DigitalRightsManagement">
-digital “rights” management</a>
-and <a
href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Protection">“protect”</a>,
-and it claims that “artists” (rather than companies) are
-primarily responsible for putting digital restrictions management into
-these disks. Nonetheless, it is a reference for the facts.
-</p>
-
-<p>Every Bluray disk (with few, rare exceptions) has DRM—so
-don't use Bluray disks!
-</p>
-</li>
-
-<li>
-<p><a
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/drm-cars-will-drive-consumers-crazy";>
-DRM in Cars Will Drive Consumers Crazy</a>.
-</p>
-</li>
-
-
+<ul class="blurbs">
+ <li id="M201806250">
+ <p>The game Metal Gear Rising for
+ MacOS was tethered to a server. The company <a
+
href="http://www.gamerevolution.com/news/400087-metal-gear-rising-mac-unplayable-drm";>
+ shut down the server, and all copies stopped working</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201711250">
+ <p>The DMCA and the EU Copyright Directive make it <a
+ href="https://boingboing.net/2017/11/25/la-la-la-cant-hear-you.html";>
+ illegal to study how iOS cr…apps spy on users</a>, because
+ this would require circumventing the iOS DRM.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201708010">
+ <p><a href="http://techin.oureverydaylife.com/kindle-drm-17841.html";>
+ The Amazon Kindle has DRM</a>. That article is flawed in that it
+ fails to treat DRM as an ethical question; it takes for granted that
+ whatever Amazon might do to its users is legitimate. It refers to
+ DRM as digital “rights” management, which is the spin
+ term used to promote DRM. Nonetheless it serves as a reference for
+ the facts.</p>
+
+ <p>We refer to that product as the <a
+ href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html"> Amazon Swindle</a>
+ because of this and <a href="/philosophy/ebooks.html"> other malicious
+ functionalities</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201705150">
+ <p>Google now allows Android
+ apps to detect whether a device has been rooted, <a
+
href="http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/05/13/netflix-confirms-blocking-rootedunlocked-devices-app-still-working-now/";>and
+ refuse to install if so</a>. The Netflix app uses this ability to
+ enforce DRM by refusing to install on rooted Android devices.</p>
+
+ <p>Update: Google <i>intentionally</i> changed Android so that apps <a
+
href="https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-use-of-google-drm-means-rooted-android-devices-are-banned-170515/";>can
+ detect rooted devices and refuse to run on them</a>. The Netflix app
+ is proprietary malware, and one shouldn't use it. However, that does
+ not make what Google has done any less wrong.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201704070">
+ <p id="iphone7-sabotage">The
+ iPhone 7 contains DRM specifically designed to <a
+
href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/kbjm8e/iphone-7-home-button-unreplaceable-repair-software-lock";>
+ brick it if an “unauthorized” repair shop fixes it</a>.
+ “Unauthorized” essentially means anyone besides Apple.</p>
+
+ <p>The article uses the term “lock”
+ to describe the DRM, but we prefer to use the term <a
+ href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#DigitalLocks"> digital
+ handcuffs</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201702020">
+ <p>DRM-restricted files can be used to <a
+
href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/02/02/231229/windows-drm-protected-files-used-to-decloak-tor-browser-users";>
+ identify people browsing through Tor</a>. The vulnerability exists
+ only if you use Windows.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201701300">
+ <p>Chrome <a
+
href="http://boingboing.net/2017/01/30/google-quietly-makes-optiona.html";>implements
+ DRM</a>. So does Chromium, through nonfree software that is effectively
+ part of it.</p>
+
+ <p><a
+ href="https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=686430";>More
+ information</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201609200">
+ <p>HP's firmware downgrade <a
+
href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/20/hp-inkjet-printers-unofficial-cartridges-software-update";>imposed
+ DRM on some printers, which now refuse to function with third-party
+ ink cartridges</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201605200">
+ <p>Oculus Rift games now have <a
+
href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vv77ea/new-oculus-drm-cross-platform";>
+ DRM meant to prevent running them on other systems</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201601100">
+ <p>The <a
+ href="http://michaelweinberg.org/post/137045828005/free-the-cube";>
+ “Cube” 3D printer was designed with DRM</a>: it
+ won't accept third-party printing materials. It is the Keurig of
+ printers. Now it is being discontinued, which means that eventually
+ authorized materials won't be available and the printers may become
+ unusable.</p>
+
+ <p>With a <a
+ href="http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/aleph-objects";>
+ printer that gets the Respects Your Freedom</a>, this problem would
+ not even be a remote possibility.</p>
+
+ <p>How pitiful that the author of that article says that there was
+ “nothing wrong” with designing the device to restrict
+ users in the first place. This is like putting a “cheat me and
+ mistreat me” sign on your chest. We should know better: we
+ should condemn all companies that take advantage of people like him.
+ Indeed, it is the acceptance of their unjust practice that teaches
+ people to be doormats.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201512260">
+ <p><a
+
href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/bmvxp4/switzerland-wants-a-single-universal-phone-charger-by-2017";>
+ Apple uses DRM software to prevent people from charging an iThing
+ with a generic USB cable</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201512140">
+ <p>Philips “smart” lightbulbs had initially been
+ designed to interact with other companies' smart light bulbs, but <a
+
href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151214/07452133070/lightbulb-drm-philips-locks-purchasers-out-third-party-bulbs-with-firmware-update.shtml";>
+ later the company updated the firmware to disallow
+ interoperability</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>If a product is “smart”, and you didn't build it,
+ it is cleverly serving its manufacturer <em>against you</em>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201501030">
+ <p id="netflix-app-geolocation-drm">The Netflix Android app <a
+
href="http://torrentfreak.com/netflix-cracks-down-on-vpn-and-proxy-pirates-150103/";>
+ forces the use of Google DNS</a>. This is one of the methods that
+ Netflix uses to enforce the geolocation restrictions dictated by the
+ movie studios.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201410081">
+ <p>Adobe made “Digital Editions,”
+ the e-reader used by most US libraries, spy on the user <a
+
href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/drm-strikes-again-3575860/";>for
+ the sake of DRM.</a></p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201311130">
+ <p><a
+
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/drm-cars-will-drive-consumers-crazy";>
+ DRM in Cars Will Drive Consumers Crazy</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201310070">
+ <p id="bluray"><a
+
href="http://web.archive.org/web/20131007102857/http://www.nclnet.org/technology/73-digital-rights-management/124-whos-driving-the-copyright-laws-consumers-insist-on-the-right-to-back-it-up";>
+ DVDs and Bluray disks have DRM</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>That page uses spin terms that favor DRM, including <a
+ href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#DigitalRightsManagement">
+ digital “rights” management</a> and <a
+
href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Protection">“protect”</a>,
+ and it claims that “artists” (rather than companies)
+ are primarily responsible for putting digital restrictions management
+ into these disks. Nonetheless, it is a reference for the facts.</p>
+
+ <p>Every Bluray disk (with few, rare exceptions) has DRM—so
+ don't use Bluray disks!</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201304050">
+ <p><a href="http://techin.oureverydaylife.com/kindle-drm-17841.html";>
+ The Amazon Kindle has DRM</a>. That article is flawed in that it
+ fails to treat DRM as an ethical question; it takes for granted that
+ whatever Amazon might do to its users is legitimate. It refers to
+ DRM as digital “rights” management, which is the spin
+ term used to promote DRM. Nonetheless it serves as a reference for
+ the facts.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201102250">
+ <p>Android <a
+
href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/drm/package-summary.html";>
+ contains facilities specifically to support DRM</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M201002180">
+ <p>DRM does more nastiness to published works than merely stopping
+ people from looking at and/or copying them. Even when it allows you to
+ look, it harasses you in many ways. Cory Doctorow's article presents
+ <a href="https://boingboing.net/2010/02/18/infographic-buying-d.html";>
+ DVDs as an example</a>.</p>
+
+ <p>We condemn the propaganda term “pirate” when it
+ is applied to people that share copies. Many of these DVDs are
+ made and distributed commercially; in reference to that practice,
+ “pirate” might be partly justified. But not when they
+ protect users from harassment.</p>
+
+ <p>The fundamental cause of this harassment, and the fundamental
+ wrong of the DRM in DVDs, is the requirement to use nonfree software
+ to play the DVD. Fortunately we have free replacement software.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M200811210">
+ <p><a
+
href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/11/apple-downgrades-macbook-video-drm";>
+ DRM (digital restrictions mechanisms) in MacOS</a>. This article
+ focuses on the fact that a new model of Macbook introduced a
+ requirement for monitors to have malicious hardware, but DRM software
+ in MacOS is involved in activating the hardware. The software for
+ accessing iTunes is also responsible.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M200803040">
+ <p><a
+
href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content_Protection";>
+ HDCP</a> is a DRM system that encrypts video and audio data from
+ the processor to the monitor. It is implemented mainly in hardware,
+ but the system software also participates, which makes it qualify
+ as malware.</p>
+
+ <p>Besides controlling users, HDCP denies their fair-use rights and
+ causes numerous practical problems.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M200802190">
+ <p><a
+ href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/02/adobe-pushes-drm-flash";>
+ DRM in Flash Player</a>.</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M200708131">
+ <p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/2007/08/aacs-tentacles/";>DRM
+ in Windows</a>, introduced to cater to <a
+ href="/proprietary/proprietary-drm.html#bluray">Bluray</a> disks.
+ (The article talks about how the same malware would later be
+ introduced in MacOS. That had not been done at the time, but it was
+ done subsequently.)</p>
+ </li>
+
+ <li id="M200703310">
+ <p>iTunes videos have DRM, which allows Apple to <a
+ href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairPlay";>dictate where its
+ customers can watch the videos they purchased</a>.</p>
+ </li>
</ul>
+
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