Post #2900953

2026-04-18 14:47 UTC

@cwebber@social.coop @LordCaramac@discordian.social @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org @ossguy@fedi.copyleft.org @richardfontana@mastodon.social In a world without copyright (assuming no other changes), nothing would prevent people from withholding source code and attempting to restrict people’s freedom by technical means (DRM). On the other hand, it would also be entirely legal to reverse engineer everything and bypass the DRM. Copyright should be removed, but DRM and providing binaries without source code should also be made illegal. Also why is your post language set to de?

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@cwebber@social.coop 2026-04-18 14:49

@noisytoot@berkeley.edu.pl @LordCaramac@discordian.social @ossguy@fedi.copyleft.org @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org @richardfontana@mastodon.social I agree with you, and also have no idea why my post was set to DE.

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@LordCaramac@discordian.social 2026-04-18 15:54

@noisytoot@berkeley.edu.pl @ossguy@fedi.copyleft.org @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org @richardfontana@mastodon.social @cwebber@social.coop because I always forget to check the language in the Android app, and it defaults to the system language

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@pietervdvn@en.osm.town 2026-04-19 09:23

@noisytoot@berkeley.edu.pl @LordCaramac@discordian.social @ossguy@fedi.copyleft.org @bkuhn@fedi.copyleft.org @richardfontana@mastodon.social @cwebber@social.coop There are also other legal mechanisms at play if DRM is involved - see @pluralistic@mamot.fr 's great 'a post american, enshittification resistent internet' talk/blogpost

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