Cory Doctorow's new book on beating big tech at its own game

Re:Cory Doctorow's new book on beating big tech at its own game by TylerE on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:10PM (#36978438)

Anyone who works with music software, to this day, deals with the pain of physical hardware keys. A few of the software players are moving from that to cloud based drm… which is at least less annoying since it doesn’t tie up a previous USB port.

It’s called iLok.

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Re:Cory Doctorow's new book on beating big tech at its own game by omgmajk on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @06:28PM (#36978643)

>Anyone who works with music software, to this day, deals with the pain of physical hardware keys.

And anyone who works in the automotive industry, sadly.

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Re:Cory Doctorow's new book on beating big tech at its own game by samplatt on Wednesday August 02, 2023 @09:44PM (#36980332)

Also the engineering industry. And Architecture. And mapping/GIS sphere.

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