Cory Doctorow on Nostr: DRM fights weren't about preserving your right to repair, to privacy, and to ...
DRM fights weren't about preserving your right to repair, to privacy, and to accessibility - they were just about making it easy to upload movies to Kazaa. Fighting for universal access to encryption wasn't about defending everyday people from corporate and state surveillance - it was just a way to help terrorists and child abusers stay out of sight of cops.
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