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It is kind of amazing it's legal to remove existing features and capabilities from hardware and software products.

I guess I can understand software built on the sinking sand of dependencies like OS and 3P frameworks. Yet it should carry a disclaimer and be priced accordingly. Perhaps mandatory refunds if it becomes useless within the 12 months after purchase.

And it's stunning that resistance to the valent powers about fucking with us is a felony offense, that anti-circumvention is one of the most punishable & swiftest things one can do to get hosed by the state.

It's just so fucked. The state should defend the people & their rights, their sovereignty. But in the digital age specifically, those with software get to set whatever Terms of Use they want, & redefine the Terms ongoingly as they please, and no one has any right against the ever extending technocratic overreach.

Mark Lemley talked about property rights that the world used to have being - my words - nuked off the face of the planet - by the vicious hordes of lawyers using contract law to write their own Terms of Use, saying whatever they please. It's a brutal world, an infernal system, a hell that governments have been coopted into entrenching and enforcing against the humans of the planet, and this spiritual repression desperately needs some counter battles that can restore the dignity capabilities respectability & tool-makership of the homo sapiens. Without the ability to reconsider thought, we no longer remain sapiens, and that's what's this infernal pact against humanity between business and government begets. (Thrown down those which would cast us down so.)

https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/mlr/624/

Shit like this is why I'll always tell people to use free-as-in-freedom software. Most DRM can only live inside blobs. I use Firefox without EME and nothing's broken. Sure, there are legit streaming sites that don't work. I consider those websites "damage" and work around them.

Don't do drugs, just say no. Don't do DRM either, just say no.

Tangent: search for DRM on trains here on HN. Incredible stuffs.