RE: https://mastodon.social/@rashunda/116137132428676193

"The fear of harsh retaliation for any country that dares to be a Disenshittification Nation is based on the premise that Trump is motivated by a commitment to fairness. He's not: Trump is motivated by a desire to dominate. Anything that threatens the dominance of the companies that take his orders is fair game, and he will retaliate in any way he can." - @pluralistic

#enshittification #AdversarialInteroperability #tech #business #DMCA

RE: https://mastodon.social/@rashunda/116137132428676193

"The fear of harsh retaliation for any country that dares to be a Disenshittification Nation is based on the premise that Trump is motivated by a commitment to fairness. He's not: Trump is motivated by a desire to dominate. Anything that threatens the dominance of the companies that take his orders is fair game, and he will retaliate in any way he can." - @pluralistic

#enshittification #AdversarialInteroperability #tech #business #DMCA

RetroDECK Emulator Removes Nintendo Switch

｢ Emulation Over "Toxicity" and DMCA Risk | TechPowerUp
Switch emulation will be removed from RetroDECK "forever," and discussions about Switch emulation will also be banned from all of RetroDECK's communities and social platforms effective immediately ｣

https://www.techpowerup.com/346601/retrodeck-emulator-removes-nintendo-switch-emulation-over-toxicity-and-dmca-risk

#retrodeck #emulation #switch #dmca #opensource

RetroDECK Emulator Removes Nintendo Switch

｢ Emulation Over "Toxicity" and DMCA Risk | TechPowerUp
Switch emulation will be removed from RetroDECK "forever," and discussions about Switch emulation will also be banned from all of RetroDECK's communities and social platforms effective immediately ｣

https://www.techpowerup.com/346601/retrodeck-emulator-removes-nintendo-switch-emulation-over-toxicity-and-dmca-risk

#retrodeck #emulation #switch #dmca #opensource

Nintendo strikes more emulators with DMCA takedown notices
"This is why we (and other emulators) don't host the source on GitHub," said one emulator developer

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nintendo-strikes-more-emulators-with-dmca-takedown-notices

#nintendo #github #dmca #opensource

Nintendo strikes more emulators with DMCA takedown notices
"This is why we (and other emulators) don't host the source on GitHub," said one emulator developer

https://www.gamesindustry.biz/nintendo-strikes-more-emulators-with-dmca-takedown-notices

#nintendo #github #dmca #opensource

"What if there was a way for a business to transform any conduct it disliked into a felony, harnessing the power of the state to threaten anyone who acted in a way that displeased the company with a long prison sentence and six-figure fines?

Surprise! That actually exists! It's called Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the " #anticircumvention" clause, which establishes five-year sentences and $500k fines for anyone who bypasses an "effective access control" for a copyrighted work."

Let Cory ( @pluralistic) explain it. He's good at explaining #enshittification, or as the rest of us call it, the 21st goddamn century.

As an aside, there should be a branch of the Judicial tree that is staffed by people who understand technology and the implications therein. (Just sayin, as someone who had thousands of pages of material stolen "fairly" for LLM.) These courts don't understand what they're ruling on.

#DMCA #copyright

"What if there was a way for a business to transform any conduct it disliked into a felony, harnessing the power of the state to threaten anyone who acted in a way that displeased the company with a long prison sentence and six-figure fines?

Surprise! That actually exists! It's called Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the " #anticircumvention" clause, which establishes five-year sentences and $500k fines for anyone who bypasses an "effective access control" for a copyrighted work."

Let Cory ( @pluralistic) explain it. He's good at explaining #enshittification, or as the rest of us call it, the 21st goddamn century.

As an aside, there should be a branch of the Judicial tree that is staffed by people who understand technology and the implications therein. (Just sayin, as someone who had thousands of pages of material stolen "fairly" for LLM.) These courts don't understand what they're ruling on.

#DMCA #copyright

#DMCA Subpoenas Can’t Be Used for Foreign #Piracy Lawsuits, Court Rules - https://torrentfreak.com/dmca-subpoenas-cant-be-used-for-foreign-piracy-lawsuits-court-rules/ #copyright interesting ruling

#DMCA Subpoenas Can’t Be Used for Foreign #Piracy Lawsuits, Court Rules - https://torrentfreak.com/dmca-subpoenas-cant-be-used-for-foreign-piracy-lawsuits-court-rules/ #copyright interesting ruling

@pluralistic @debacle Even if it were the case that your definition of effective was accepted law, one wouldn't know whether one's circumvention research was legal in advance, as if the DRM is effective then the research wouldn't be legal, putting researchers in a legal bind.

#dmca

@pluralistic @debacle Even if it were the case that your definition of effective was accepted law, one wouldn't know whether one's circumvention research was legal in advance, as if the DRM is effective then the research wouldn't be legal, putting researchers in a legal bind.

#dmca

𝐀𝐬𝐬𝐚𝐮𝐥𝐭 𝐨𝐧 𝐈𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐉𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐬𝐦: 𝐔𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐝 𝐋𝐞𝐠𝐚𝐥 𝐀𝐭𝐭𝐚𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐁𝐥𝐚𝐜𝐤 𝐁𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐚 𝐈𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐬𝐭𝐢𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

On March 1, 2025, SuspectFile published an article on Black Basta based solely on the original, independent work of Valéry Rieß-Marchive, Editor-in-Chief of LeMagIT.

At no time did Valéry or SuspectFile copy from, or use, any original material by The Hacker News.

It was therefore surprising that The Hacker News’ law firm, Dennemeyer & Associates, sent SuspectFile a letter asserting copyright infringement of a Ravie Lakshmanan article on Black Basta, and demanding removal of our article within 24 hours or they would request takedown of our site and monetary damages...

https://www.suspectfile.com/assault-on-independent-journalism-unfounded-legal-attacks-over-the-black-basta-investigation/

#Black_Basta #Copyright_infringement #Dennemeyer #DMCA #Legal_action #LeMagIT #Nefedov #THN

@pluralistic > Disenshittification Nation (29 Jan 2026):

Like all the best Americans, I am a Canadian, and while I have lived abroad for more than two decades, I flatter myself that I am still steeped in our folkways, and so as is traditional at events like this, I would like to begin by apologising... I'm sorry... I'm really sorry... I know that at a tech event, you expect to hear from a speaker who will come up and tell you how to lose hundreds of billions of dollars building data-centres for the money-losingest technology in human history, a technology so wildly defective that we've had to come up with new, exotic words to describe its defects, like "hallucination." A technology that will never recoup the capex already firehosed on – let alone the trillions committed to it – and whose only possible path to glory is to somehow get so good that it makes millions of people unemployed... But don't worry: you can't make the word-guessing program into a "superintelligence" by shoveling more words into it...

#artificialTechnology #enshittification #disenshittification #counterdisruption #datacenters #workers #laborNews #tech #techNews #dmca #techHistory

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/post-american-canada/#ottawa

@pluralistic > Disenshittification Nation (29 Jan 2026):

Like all the best Americans, I am a Canadian, and while I have lived abroad for more than two decades, I flatter myself that I am still steeped in our folkways, and so as is traditional at events like this, I would like to begin by apologising... I'm sorry... I'm really sorry... I know that at a tech event, you expect to hear from a speaker who will come up and tell you how to lose hundreds of billions of dollars building data-centres for the money-losingest technology in human history, a technology so wildly defective that we've had to come up with new, exotic words to describe its defects, like "hallucination." A technology that will never recoup the capex already firehosed on – let alone the trillions committed to it – and whose only possible path to glory is to somehow get so good that it makes millions of people unemployed... But don't worry: you can't make the word-guessing program into a "superintelligence" by shoveling more words into it...

#artificialTechnology #enshittification #disenshittification #counterdisruption #datacenters #workers #laborNews #tech #techNews #dmca #techHistory

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/29/post-american-canada/#ottawa

@pluralistic This is a great idea!!!!! And something that people on the ground should most certainly consider to organize around, an opportunity to undo the DMCA is certainly worth pushing #copyright #DMCA #DMCA1201

@pluralistic This is a great idea!!!!! And something that people on the ground should most certainly consider to organize around, an opportunity to undo the DMCA is certainly worth pushing #copyright #DMCA #DMCA1201

Website with a DMCA Takedown

https://priyatham.in/en/post/hosting-dmca/

#HackerNews #DMCA #Takedown #Website #Hosting #Copyright #Law

FFmpeg has issued a DMCA takedown on GitHub

https://twitter.com/FFmpeg/status/2004599109559496984

#HackerNews #FFmpeg #DMCA #GitHub #takedown #copyright #news

Corporate lobbyists claim third-party repairs are dangerous. But when you dig into their "evidence"?

- 40 deaths over 25 years (only 1 patient death linked to repair).
- 38,500 "exposed to harm"? That number was made up by lobbyists—not the FDA.
- The FDA actually says third-party repairs are critical to healthcare.

They’re lying to keep you dependent. And it’s working.

🔗 https://youtu.be/SoJ5a74yRO0
or https://odysee.com/@rossmanngroup:a/lies-that-uphold-the-dmca-part-1-morgan:6

#RightToRepair #MedicalDevices #CorporateGreed #DMCA1201 #Right2Repair #FOSS #DMCA #TechEthics #Sustainability