#drm

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When we're as surrounded by streaming platforms as we are now, it's easy to forget that the DRM-free life still exists. Even now, there are dozens of record labels, publishers, and online retailers that refuse to abuse their customers. Learn about them in the Guide: https://u.fsf.org/1lr

isn't just an annoyance -- it's a violation of your right to use the items you own as you see fit. Learn more about our Defective by Design campaign at http://defectivebydesign.org, and follow our campaign account at @endDRM

Happy to support free editions of Enshittification by @pluralistic !
It comes out October 7th, and I'll be asking my library to get copies and also in a year or so order the graphic novel version.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/enshittification-the-drm-free-audiobook?ref=thanks-copy

From: blenderdumbass . org

Elon Musk is now infamous for showing a Nazi-Salute when Donald Trump became the president for the second time. Yet, this is the same Elon Musk, who's cars were disliked by the same people who have a hard on Trump. People who like to burn gasoline. For them an electric-car company is an epitome of wokeness. It was very fu...

Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/how_ai__ice_and_elon_musk_manipulate_people_into_supporting_evil_

For Linux users who want to remove DRMs from ebooks they've legally purchased, so as to read them on the ebook reader they've also legally purchased for their intended purpose: I've updated my setup to replace using through wine with the simple and marvelous libgourou library.

Details here:

https://amrhaps.net/english/post/2025/07/13/Adobe-Digital-Editions%2C-Linux%2C-and-DRMs%3A-Updated-again

With thanks to @mart1oeil who told me years ago this should be possible 🙂

When we're as surrounded by streaming platforms as we are now, it's easy to forget that the DRM-free life still exists. Even now, there are dozens of record labels, publishers, and online retailers that refuse to abuse their customers. Learn about them in the Guide: https://u.fsf.org/1lr

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Threaded rant of the day. In early 2023 'Zon made format & DRM changes that make it difficult to impossible to transport/read purchased Kindle books on other devices. (As far as I can tell, using only Calibre & plugins for transport.) I'm no longer even going to try. They've entirely lost my patronage.

When we're as surrounded by streaming platforms as we are now, it's easy to forget that the DRM-free life still exists. Even now, there are dozens of record labels, publishers, and online retailers that refuse to abuse their customers. Learn about them in the Guide: https://u.fsf.org/1lr