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You Can Remove DRM From Your Digital Books, but It's Probably Illegal (lifehacker.com)

submitted 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) by Yingwu@lemmy.dbzer0.com to c/piracy@lemmy.dbzer0.com

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Title from the article. Interesting article, with some good words from our DRM-free favorite Cory Doctorow.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/40754848

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[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 23 points 1 month ago

jaywalking is probably illegal too

[-] Draconic_NEO@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 1 month ago

And the name is derived from an awful slur too. The history of that is really messed up.

[-] cupcakezealot@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 1 month ago

wait really? i didn't know of any of its history.

off to the wikipedia rabbit hole i go

[-] neshura@bookwormstory.social 5 points 1 month ago

I will never stop being confused by this law. Just crossing the street cannot possibly be illegal anywhere. I'm fully convinced the entire thing is an elaborate joke by the americans.

[-] baggachipz@sh.itjust.works 8 points 1 month ago

Like everything else here in the US, it’s borne out of racism. In the Jim Crow era, most black people couldn’t afford a car. White people driving around didn’t like those pesky walking people getting in their way, so they made it difficult to cross the street. It then gave cops a way to threaten/arrest/persecute them.