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Re:Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise by HeatrayEnjoyer on Thursday May 09, 2024 @01:15PM (#40310415)
That's all beside the point. Hardware belongs to the user and should be under the user's control. Treacherous computing should be highly taboo and illegal.

The "sustainability" of Disney's profits are not important. To suggest otherwise on a site literally named Hacker News is comical.

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Re:Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise by eklavya on Thursday May 09, 2024 @02:38PM (#40311445)
Why would bringing up sustainability of any business be comical at Hacker news?

How do you make money? Why should it not be for free? Your sustainability is important?

We agree on hardware belonging to the user by the way.

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Re:Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise by int_19h on Thursday May 09, 2024 @05:34PM (#40313184)
Hacker ethos is about freedom to control what you own and put it to the purposes that you, its owner, want. DRM takes away that freedom, so it is obviously incompatible.

If that freedom makes e.g. Disney business model unsustainable, then that business model is itself incompatible with the ethos.

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Re:Microsoft PlayReady – Complete Client Identity Compromise by HeatrayEnjoyer on Friday May 10, 2024 @01:05AM (#40315637)
You're still missing the point, and I believe intentionally so.

> We agree on hardware belonging to the user by the way.

You absolutely do not or you would not engage in the work you do. Actions speak louder than words. Being dishonest only makes it even worse.

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