Three years after the W3C approved a DRM standard, it's no longer possible to make a functional indie browser

https://boingboing.net/2020/01/08/rip-open-web-platform.html


#drm #browsers #w3c

[México] Reparar tu smartphone o instalarle una ROM será delito en México: la nueva ley que protege los candados digitales, explicada

https://www.xataka.com.mx/legislacion-y-derechos/reparar-tu-smartphone-instalarle-rom-sera-delito-mexico-nueva-ley-que-proteje-candados-digitales-explicada

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Repairing your smartphone or installing a ROM will be a crime in Mexico: the new law that protects digital locks, explained

Installing a custom ROM, downloading and using software that does not come from the same provider, and even repairing a phone, involves breaking a digital lock (also known as DRM), which is now expressly prohibited in the Federal Copyright Law. Digital padlocks are technological protection measures that hardware manufacturers or developers use for their copyrights to be protected. In this way, users cannot make a copy of the information that the systems contain and cannot access the software code.

The problem is that breaking padlocks is part of the process to repair a computer, update a device that has been discontinued by the manufacturer, or prevent a device from collecting user information.

The new Free Trade Agreement between Mexico, the United States and Canada enters into force on July 1. It was a priority of Congress that before it happened, a series of laws were harmonized, among which is the Federal Law on Copyright. Although civil organizations such as the Network for the Defense of Digital Rights and Article 19 denounced that the law could give way to cases of "prior censorship", and the debate loomed (but did not materialize) in the Senate, the reforms to the Law were approved both in the Senate and in the Chamber of Deputies on June 29 and 30 respectively. The same document established that digital locks must not be broken, with very few exceptions.
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#Mexico #roms #repair #mod #copyright #drm #gov

Reddit's website uses DRM for fingerprinting

Recently, I was using a page on Reddit (i.e. the main redesign domain, not old.reddit.com), when I saw a yellow bar from Firefox

Why did Reddit want to use DRM? This pop-up was appearing on all pages, even on pages with no audio or video. To find out, I did a bunch of source code analysis and found out.

Reddit’s source code uses bundling and minification, but I was able to infer that in ./src/reddit/index.tsx, a script was conditionally loaded into the page. If the show_white_ops A/B test flag was set, then it loaded another script: https://s.udkcrj.com/ag/386183/clear.js. That script loads https://s.udkcrj.com/2/4.71.0/main.js (although it appears to test for a browser bug involving running JSON.parse with null bytes, and sometimes loads https://s.udkcrj.com/2/4.71.0/JSON-main.js instead, but I haven’t analyzed this file (it looks fairly similar though), and also does nothing if due to another browser bug, !("a" == "a"[0]) evaluates to true).

The purpose of all of this appears to be both fingerprinting and preventing ad fraud. I’ve determined that udkcrj.com belongs to White Ops. I have infered this from the name of Reddit’s feature flag, and mentions of White Ops which is a “global leader in bot mitigation, bot prevention, and fraud protection”. They appear to do this by collecting tons of data about the browser, and analyzing it. I must say, their system is quite impressive.

https://smitop.com/post/reddit-whiteops/

#reddit #drm #tracking

Amazon Argues Users Don't Actually Own Purchased Prime Video Content

via www.hollywoodreporter.com

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https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24928306


#amazon #video #drm