Venia Silente

Interesting. You could setup something like a linux VM (or an rPi) running a distro with privoxy to filter out mentions of Linux per domain(s)!

So, lemme get this straight: allowing remote parties to install malware (DRM) on your system results in allowing remote parties to install malware on your system? Wow, who could have known! Certainly not the distributors of the step-one malware, am I right?

I’m certain there’s a couple of lessons to be learned here (install and run games as normal, non-elevated users, people! It’s easy to do on Linux) but I’m also somehow certain Big Corpos are going to stick their heads into the sand regarding such lessons.

Oh well, the pirate way it is.

Still can’t understand the point of it. Like, is the state ordering that civilians must be defenseless in the face of crime, for example? But yeah in general it just sounds like the usual “I am the Senate” fascist kind of takeover and control of power.

because it has the monopoly on violence over you

I’ve been hearing this one going for a while, where does it come from? Sounds like a corpofascist slogan.

One thing I learned from NCIS: “investigate suicides as if they were murders”.

Dunno if it was one of the Rules, tho.

It said the 62-year-old had died from a “self-inflicted” wound on 9 March and police were investigating.

Ah yes the classic suicide by shot to the back.

Nothing to see here, citizen. Move along, and consoom Boeing.

Want me to buy your media legally? Oh please, this is tremendously easy to do for a corporation!

• Downloadable files (you have files, right? Otherwise how are you streaming out the stuff)
• …with open codecs (you are using an open codec right? Otherwise you have to encode your stuff like 10 times for 10 different devices each with its own idiosyncrasy)
• …without DRM (you have clean copies right? it’d not be smart to base a business model on files you can’t open, see the above)
• …at an aggregate price that’s lower than paying for TV cable (you can cash in only a bit, right? It’s digital media and your competition is literally over-the-air TV with extra steps, it’s not like you have the mother of pearl of cancer cures here)