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RMS: How I do my Computing
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this post was submitted on 02 Aug 2023
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I've always found his take too extreme. While I'm in agreement with things like being anti FB, and I'm 75% of the time living in a console with no X11, things like his issue with DRM for services like Netflix always baffled me. I'm paying a license fee for temporary access to media. If you don't like "renting" then go buy the content but being anti DRM for things one doesn't own seems odd.
I use the digital version of the local library which also uses DRM because they need a way to simulate the finite access of a resource like having a physical book provides. There is no "violation of my rights" in this situation as I can't do anything with this digital copy with digital rules that I could do with a physical book. That is outside of destroying it or stealing it.