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<!--#include virtual="/server/header.html" --> <!-- Parent-Version: 1.84 1.96 --> <!--#set var="DISABLE_TOP_ADDENDUM" value="yes" --> <!-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Please do not edit <ul class="blurbs">! Instead, edit /proprietary/workshop/mal.rec, then regenerate pages. See explanations in /proprietary/workshop/README.md. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --> <title>Proprietary DRM - GNU Project - Free Software Foundation</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/side-menu.css" media="screen,print" /> <!--#include virtual="/proprietary/po/proprietary-drm.translist" --> <!--#include virtual="/server/banner.html" --> <div class="nav"> <a id="side-menu-button" class="switch" href="#navlinks"> <img id="side-menu-icon" height="32" src="/graphics/icons/side-menu.png" title="Section contents" alt=" [Section contents] " /> </a> <p class="breadcrumb"> <a href="/"><img src="/graphics/icons/home.png" height="24" alt="GNU Home" title="GNU Home" /></a> / <a href="/proprietary/proprietary.html">Malware</a> / By type / </p> </div> <!--GNUN: OUT-OF-DATE NOTICE--> <!--#include virtual="/server/top-addendum.html" --> <div style="clear: both"></div> <div id="last-div" class="reduced-width"> <h2>Proprietary DRM</h2> <a href="/proprietary/proprietary.html">Other examples of proprietary malware</a> <div class="infobox"> <hr class="full-width" /> <p>Nonfree (proprietary) software is very often malware (designed to mistreat the user). Nonfree software is controlled by its developers, which puts them in a position of power over the users; <a href="/philosophy/free-software-even-more-important.html">that is the basic injustice</a>. The developers and manufacturers often exercise that power to the detriment of the users they ought to serve.</p> <p>This typically takes the form of malicious functionalities.</p> <hr class="full-width" /> </div> <div class="article"> <p>Here are examples of proprietary programs and systems that implement <em>digital restrictions management</em> (DRM): functionalities designed intentionally to restrict what users can do. These functionalities are also called <em>digital handcuffs</em>. </p> <p>DRM is reinforced by <a href="http://www.theguardian.com/technology/blog/2014/feb/05/digital-rights-management"> censorship laws</a> that ban software (and hardware) that can break the handcuffs. Instead of these laws, DRM itself ought to be illegal. Please support our campaign to <a href="http://DefectiveByDesign.org/">abolish DRM</a>. </p> <div class="important"> <p>If you know of an example that ought to be in this page but isn't here, please write to <a href="mailto:webmasters@gnu.org"><webmasters@gnu.org></a> to inform us. Please include the URL of a trustworthy reference or two to serve as specific substantiation.</p> </div> <div class="column-limit" id="proprietary-drm"></div> <ul class="blurbs"> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M202401180.0"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2024-01</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p><a href="/proprietary/uhd-bluray-denies-your-freedom.html">UHD Blu-ray disks are encrypted with AACS, one of the worst kinds of DRM</a>. Playing them on a PC requires software and hardware that meet stringent proprietary specifications, which developers can only obtain after signing an agreement that explicitly forbids them from disclosing any source code.</p> </li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M202312060"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2023-12</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p><a href="https://badcyber.com/dieselgate-but-for-trains-some-heavyweight-hardware-hacking/">Newag, a Polish railway manufacturer, puts DRM inside trains to prevent third-party repairs</a>.</p> <ul> <li><p>DRM does more nastiness <li><p>The train's software contains code to published works than merely stopping people detect if the GPS coordinates are near some third party repairers, or the train has not been running for some time. If yes, the train will be “locked up” (i.e. bricked). It was also possible to unlock it by pressing a secret combination of buttons in the cockpit, but this ability was removed by a manufacturer's software update.</p></li> <li><p>The train will also lock up after a certain date, which is hardcoded in the software.</p></li> <li><p>The company pushes a software update that detects if the DRM code has been bypassed, i.e. the lock should have been engaged but the train is still operational. If yes, the controller cabin screen will display a scary message warning about “copyright violation”.</p></li> </ul> </li> <!-- Copied from looking at and/or copying them. Even when workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M202311301"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2023-11</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20231213150111/https://www.nytimes.com/2023/11/12/technology/iphone-repair-apple-control.html">To block non-Apple repairs, Apple encodes the iMonster serial number in the original parts</a>. This is called “parts pairing”. Swapping parts between working iMonsters of the same model causes malfunction or disabling of some functionalities. Part replacement may also trigger persistent alerts, unless it allows is done by an Apple store.</p> </li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M202305100"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2023-05</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p>HP delivers printers with a universal back door, and recently used it to <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2023/may/10/how-can-hp-block-me-from-using-a-cheaper-printer-cartridge"> sabotage them by remotely installing malware</a>. The malware makes the printer refuse to function with non-HP ink cartrides, and even with old HP cartridges which HP now declares to have “expired.” HP calls the back door “dynamic security,” and has the gall to claim that this “security” protects users from malware.</p> <p>If you own an HP printer that can still use non-HP cartridges, we urge you to look, disconnect it harasses you in many ways. Cory Doctorow's from the internet. This will ensure that HP doesn't sabotage it by “updating” its software.</p> <p><small>Note how the author of the Guardian article presents credulously repeats HP's assertion that the “dynamic security” feature protects users against malware, not recognizing that the article demonstrates it does the opposite.</small></p> </li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M202209000"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2022-09</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p><a hreflang="ja" href="https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/B-CAS">B-CAS</a> <a href="https://boingboing.net/2010/02/18/infographic-buying-d.html"> DVDs href="#m1">[1]</a> is the digital restrictions management (DRM) system used by Japanese TV broadcasters, including NHK (public-service TV). It is sold by the B-CAS company, which has a de-facto monopoly on it. Initially intended for pay-TV, its use was extended to digital free-to-air broadcasting as an example</a>.</p> <p>We condemn a means to enforce restrictions on copyrighted works. The system encrypts works that permit free redistribution just like other works, thus denying users their nominal rights.</p> <p>On the client side, B-CAS is typically implemented by a card that plugs into a compatible receiver, or alternatively by a tuner card that plugs into a computer. Beside implementing drastic copying and viewing restrictions, this system gives broadcasters full power over users, through back doors among other means. For example:</p> <ul> <li>It can force messages to the propaganda term “pirate” when user's TV screen, and the user can't turn them off.</li> <li>It can collect viewing information and send it is applied to other companies to take surveys. Until 2011, user registration was required, so the viewing habits of each customer were recorded. We don't know whether this personal information was deleted from the company's servers after 2011.</li> <li>Each card has an ID, which enables broadcasters to force customer-specific updates via the back door normally used to update the decryption key. Thus pay-TV broadcasters can disable decryption of the broadcast wave if subscription fees are not paid on time. This feature could also be used by any broadcaster (possibly instructed by the government) to stop certain persons from watching TV.</li> <li>As the export of B-CAS cards is illegal, people outside Japan can't (officially) decrypt the satellite broadcast signal that share copies. Many of these DVDs may spill over to their location. They are thus deprived of a valuable source of information about what happens in Japan.</li> </ul> <p>These unacceptable restrictions led to a sort of cat-and-mouse game, with some users doing their best to bypass the system, and broadcasters trying to stop them without much success: cryptographic keys were retrieved through the back door of the B-CAS card, illegal cards were made and distributed commercially; sold on the black market, as well as a tuner for PC that disables the copy control signal.</p> <p>While B-CAS cards are still in reference to use with older equipment, modern high definition TVs have an even nastier version of this DRM (called ACAS) in a special chip that practice, “pirate” might be partly justified. But not when they protect users is built into the receiver. The chip can update its own software from harassment.</p> <p>The fundamental cause the company's servers, even when the receiver is turned off (but still plugged into an outlet). This feature could be abused to disable stored TV programs that the power in place doesn't agree with, thus interfering with free speech.</p> <p>Being part of the receiver, the ACAS chip is supposed to be tamper-resistant. Time will tell…</p> <p id="m1"><small>[1] We thank the free software supporter who translated this harassment, article from Japanese, and the fundamental wrong shared his experience of B-CAS with us. (Unfortunately, the article presents DRM as a good thing.)</small></p> </li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M202203210"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2022-03</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p>Apple prevents people from upgrading their Mac hardware <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/21/22989226/apple-mac-studios-removable-ssd-blocked-software-replacement">by imposing DRM on its removable SSD storage</a>.</p> </li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in DVDs, proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M202202190"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2022-02</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p>Hewlett-Packard is <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/money/2022/feb/19/how-cheap-ink-cartridges-can-cost-you-dear"> implementing DRM in its printers</a> so they refuse to print with ink cartridges from another supplier.</p> </li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M202202150"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2022-02</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/worst-timeline-printer-company-putting-drm-paper-now"> Dymo is now embedding DRM in the requirement paper rolls for its label printers</a> to use nonfree software make those printers reject equivalent paper rolls made by other companies. This is implemented by an RFID tag, which keeps track of how many labels remain on the roll, and blocks further printing when the roll is empty—an efficient way to play prevent reusing the DVD. Fortunately we have free replacement software. </p> same RFID with a third-party roll.</p> </li> <li><p>The Netflix Android app <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M202111040"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-11</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p>Apple's new tactic to restrict users from repairing their own device and impose DRM on people is to <a href="http://torrentfreak.com/netflix-cracks-down-on-vpn-and-proxy-pirates-150103/"> forces href="https://www.ifixit.com/News/54829/apples-new-screen-repair-trap-could-change-the-repair-industry-forever">completely disable its Face ID functionality</a> when you replace its screen.</p> </li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M202110130"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-10</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p>Adobe <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20211014123717/https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/13/theres-an-app-for-that/#gnash">has licensed its Flash Player to China's Zhong Cheng Network</a> who is offering the program bundled with spyware and a back door that can remotely deactivate it.</p> <p>Adobe is responsible for this since they gave Zhong Cheng Network permission to do this. This injustice involves “misuse” of the DMCA, but “proper,” intended use of Google DNS</a>. This the DMCA is one a much bigger injustice. There is <a href="/philosophy/right-to-read.html">a series of the methods that Netflix uses errors related to enforce DMCA</a>.</p> </li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M202105300"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-05</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p><a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2021/may/30/gadgets-have-stopped-working-together-interoperability-apple">Apple is systematically undermining interoperability</a>. At the geolocation restrictions dictated hardware level, it does this via nonstandard plugs, buses and networks. At the software level, it does this by not letting the movie studios.</p> user have any data except within one app.</p> </li> <li><p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content_Protection"> HDCP</a> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M202103100"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2021-03</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p>Amazon's monopoly and DRM is <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2021/03/10/amazon-library-ebook-monopoly/">stopping public libraries from lending e-books and audiobooks</a>. Amazon became powerful in e-book world by <a href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html">Swindle</a>, and is now misusing its power and violates people's rights using <a href="https://www.defectivebydesign.org">Digital Restrictions Management</a>.</p> <p>The article is written in a DRM system way that encrypts video endorses DRM in general, which is unacceptable. <a href="/proprietary/proprietary-drm.html">DRM is an injustice to people</a>.</p> </li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M202010180"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2020-10</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p>Microsoft is <a href="https://www.slashgear.com/windows-10-users-are-grumpy-over-forced-updates-and-unwanted-apps-18643135/">forcing Windows users</a> to <a href="https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/manage-updates-in-windows-643e9ea7-3cf6-7da6-a25c-95d4f7f099fe">install upgrades it pushes</a> using <a href="/proprietary/proprietary-back-doors.html#windows-update">its universal back doors</a>. These upgrades can do various harms to users such as restricting computers from some functions and/or forcing users to defenselessly do whatever Microsoft tells them to do.</p> </li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M201908150"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2019-08</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p>Apple is putting DRM on iPhone batteries, and audio data the system proprietary software <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/59nz3k/apple-is-locking-batteries-to-specific-iphones-a-nightmare-for-diy-repair">turns off certain features when batteries are replaced other than by Apple.</a></p> </li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M201904040"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2019-04</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p>Ebooks “bought” from Microsoft's store check that their DRM is valid by connecting to the processor store every time their “owner” wants to read them. Microsoft is going to close this store, <a href="https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47810367"> bricking all DRM'ed ebooks it has ever “sold”</a>. (The article additionally highlights the monitor. It pitfalls of DRM.)</p> <p>This is implemented mainly in hardware, another proof that a DRM-encumbered product doesn't belong to the person who bought it. Microsoft said it will refund customers, but this is no excuse for selling them restricted books.</p> </li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M201902080"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2019-02</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p>The HP <a href="https://boingboing.net/2019/02/08/inkjet-dystopias.html"> “ink subscription” cartridges have DRM that constantly communicates with HP servers</a> to make sure the system software also participates, which makes user is still paying for the subscription, and hasn't printed more pages than were paid for.</p> <p>Even though the ink subscription program may be cheaper in some specific cases, it qualify as malware.</p> <p>Besides controlling spies on users, HDCP denies their fair-use rights and causes numerous practical problems.</p> involves totally unacceptable restrictions in the use of ink cartridges that would otherwise be in working order.</p> </li> <li><p>iTunes videos <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M201810150"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2018-10</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p>Printer manufacturers are very innovative—at blocking the use of independent replacement ink cartridges. Their “security upgrades” occasionally impose new forms of cartridge DRM. <a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa98ab/printer-makers-are-crippling-cheap-ink-cartridges-via-bogus-security-updates"> HP and Epson have DRM, which allows Apple done this</a>.</p> </li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M201806250"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2018-06</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p>The game Metal Gear Rising for MacOS was tethered to a server. The company <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairPlay">dictate where its customers can watch href="https://www.gamerevolution.com/news/400087-metal-gear-rising-mac-unplayable-drm"> shut down the videos they purchased</a>.</p> server, and all copies stopped working</a>.</p> </li> <li><p>The <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M201711250"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2017-11</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p>The DMCA and the EU Copyright Directive make it <a href="https://boingboing.net/2017/11/25/la-la-la-cant-hear-you.html"> illegal to study how iOS cr...apps cr…apps spy on users</a>, because this would require circumventing the iOS DRM.</p> </li> <li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M201705150"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2017-05</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p>Google now allows Android apps to detect whether a device has been rooted, <a href="http://www.androidpolice.com/2017/05/13/netflix-confirms-blocking-rootedunlocked-devices-app-still-working-now/">and href="https://www.androidpolice.com/2017/05/13/netflix-confirms-blocking-rootedunlocked-devices-app-still-working-now/">and refuse to install if so</a>. The Netflix app uses this ability to enforce DRM by refusing to install on rooted Android devices.</p> <p>Update: Google <i>intentionally</i> changed Android so that apps <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-use-of-google-drm-means-rooted-android-devices-are-banned-170515/">can detect rooted devices and refuse to run on them</a>. The Netflix app is proprietary malware, and one shouldn't use it. However, that does not make what Google has done any less wrong.</p> </li> <li><p>Windows <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M201704130"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2017-04</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p><a href="https://itstillworks.com/kindle-drm-17841.html"> The Amazon Kindle has DRM</a>. That article is flawed in that it fails to treat DRM files as an ethical question; it takes for granted that whatever Amazon might do to its users is legitimate. It refers to DRM as digital “rights” management, which is the spin term used to promote DRM. Nonetheless it serves as a reference for the facts.</p> <p>We refer to that product as the <a href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html"> Amazon Swindle</a> because of this and <a href="/philosophy/ebooks.html"> other malicious functionalities</a>.</p> </li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M201704070"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2017-04</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p id="iphone7-sabotage">The iPhone 7 contains DRM specifically designed to <a href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/02/02/231229/windows-drm-protected-files-used-to-decloak-tor-browser-users">can href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/kbjm8e/iphone-7-home-button-unreplaceable-repair-software-lock"> brick it if an “unauthorized” repair shop fixes it</a>. “Unauthorized” essentially means anyone besides Apple.</p> <p><small>(The article uses the term “lock” to describe the DRM, but we prefer to use the term <a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#DigitalLocks"> digital handcuffs</a>.)</small></p> </li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M201702020"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2017-02</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p>DRM-restricted files can be used to <a href="https://yro.slashdot.org/story/17/02/02/231229/windows-drm-protected-files-used-to-decloak-tor-browser-users"> identify people browsing through Tor</a>. The vulnerability exists only if you use Windows. </p></li> <li> Windows.</p> </li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M201701300"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2017-01</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p>Chrome <a href="http://boingboing.net/2017/01/30/google-quietly-makes-optiona.html">implements href="https://boingboing.net/2017/01/30/google-quietly-makes-optiona.html">implements DRM</a>. So does Chromium, through nonfree software that is effectively part of it.</p> <p><a href="https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=686430">More href="https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail_ezt?id=686430">More information</a>.</p> </li> <li><p>Android <a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/drm/package-summary.html">contains facilities specifically to support DRM.</a></p> </li> <li><p>HP's <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M201609200"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2016-09</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p>HP's firmware downgrade <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/sep/20/hp-inkjet-printers-unofficial-cartridges-software-update">imposed DRM on some printers, which now refuse to function with third-party ink cartridges</a>.</p> </li> <li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M201605200"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2016-05</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p>Oculus Rift games now have <a href="https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/vv77ea/new-oculus-drm-cross-platform">have href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/vv77ea/new-oculus-drm-cross-platform"> DRM meant to prevent running them on other systems</a>.</p> </li> <li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M201601100"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2016-01</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p>The <a href="http://michaelweinberg.org/post/137045828005/free-the-cube"> href="https://michaelweinberg.org/post/137045828005/free-the-cube"> “Cube” 3D printer was designed with DRM</a>: it won't accept third-party printing materials. It is the Keurig of printers. Now it is being discontinued, which means that eventually authorized materials won't be available and the printers may become unusable.</p> <p>With a <a href="http://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/aleph-objects"> href="https://www.fsf.org/resources/hw/endorsement/aleph-objects"> printer that gets the Respects Your Freedom</a>, this problem would not even be a remote possibility.</p> <p>How pitiful that the author of that article says that there was “nothing wrong” with designing the device to restrict users in the first place. This is like putting a “cheat me and mistreat me” sign on your chest. We should know better: we should condemn all companies that take advantage of people like him. Indeed, it is the acceptance of their unjust practice that teaches people to be doormats.</p> </li> <li> <p>Phillips <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M201512260"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2015-12</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p><a href="https://www.vice.com/en/article/bmvxp4/switzerland-wants-a-single-universal-phone-charger-by-2017"> Apple uses DRM software to prevent people from charging an iThing with a generic USB cable</a>.</p> </li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M201512140"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2015-12</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p>Philips “smart” lightbulbs <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20151214/07452133070/lightbulb-drm-philips-locks-purchasers-out-third-party-bulbs-with-firmware-update.shtml"> have had initially been designed not to interact with other companies' smart lightbulbs</a>.</p> light bulbs, but <a href="https://www.techdirt.com/2015/12/14/lightbulb-drm-philips-locks-purchasers-out-third-party-bulbs-with-firmware-update/"> later the company updated the firmware to disallow interoperability</a>.</p> <p>If a product is “smart”, and you didn't build it, it is cleverly serving its manufacturer <em>against you</em>.</p> </li> <li> <p><a href="http://techin.oureverydaylife.com/kindle-drm-17841.html"> The Amazon Kindle has DRM</a>. That article is flawed <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in that it fails to treat DRM as an ethical question; it takes for granted that whatever Amazon might do to its users is legitimate. It refers to DRM as digital “rights” management, which is proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M201501030"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2015-01</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p id="netflix-app-geolocation-drm">The Netflix Android app <a href="https://torrentfreak.com/netflix-cracks-down-on-vpn-and-proxy-pirates-150103/"> forces the spin term used to promote DRM. Nonetheless it serves as a reference for use of Google DNS</a>. This is one of the facts. </p> <p> We refer to methods that product as the <a href="/philosophy/why-call-it-the-swindle.html"> Amazon Swindle </a> because of this and <a href="/philosophy/ebooks.html"> other malicious functionalities</a>. </p> </li> <li> <p><a href="http://arstechnica.com/apple/2007/08/aacs-tentacles/">DRM in Windows</a>, introduced to cater Netflix uses to <a href="#bluray">Bluray</a> disks. (The article talks about how enforce the same malware would later be introduced in MacOS. That had not been done at geolocation restrictions dictated by the time, but it was done subsequently.) </p> movie studios.</p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/02/adobe-pushes-drm-flash"> DRM <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in Flash Player</a>. </p> </li> <li><p>Adobe proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M201410080.1"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2014-10</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p>Adobe made “Digital Editions,” the e-reader used by most US libraries, spy on the user <a href="http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/drm-strikes-again-3575860/">for href="https://web.archive.org/web/20141220181015/http://www.computerworlduk.com/blogs/open-enterprise/drm-strikes-again-3575860/">for the sake of DRM.</a></p> </li> <li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M201311130"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2013-11</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p><a href="http://web.archive.org/web/20131007102857/http://www.nclnet.org/technology/73-digital-rights-management/124-whos-driving-the-copyright-laws-consumers-insist-on-the-right-to-back-it-up"> href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/drm-cars-will-drive-consumers-crazy"> DRM in cars will drive consumers crazy</a>.</p> </li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M201310070"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2013-10</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p id="bluray"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131007102857/http://www.nclnet.org/technology/73-digital-rights-management/124-whos-driving-the-copyright-laws-consumers-insist-on-the-right-to-back-it-up"> DVDs and <span id="bluray">Bluray</span> Blu-ray disks have DRM</a>. </p> DRM</a>.</p> <p>That page uses spin terms that favor DRM, including <a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#DigitalRightsManagement"> digital “rights” management</a> and <a href="/philosophy/words-to-avoid.html#Protection">“protect”</a>, and it claims that “artists” (rather than companies) are primarily responsible for putting digital restrictions management into these disks. Nonetheless, it is a reference for the facts. </p> facts.</p> <p>Every Bluray Blu-ray disk (with few, rare exceptions) has DRM—so don't use Bluray disks! </p> Blu-ray disks!</p> </li> <li> <p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/11/drm-cars-will-drive-consumers-crazy"> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M201212180"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2012-12</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p>Samsung “Smart” TVs have <a href="https://wiki.samygo.tv/index.php?title=SamyGO_for_DUMMIES#What_are_Restricted_Firmwares.3F"> turned Linux into the base for a tyrant system</a> so as to impose DRM. What enables Samsung to do this is that Linux is released under GNU GPL version 2, <a href="/licenses/rms-why-gplv3.html">not version 3</a>, together with a weak interpretation of GPL version 2.</p> </li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M201102250"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2011-02</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p>Android <a href="https://developer.android.com/reference/android/drm/package-summary.html"> contains facilities specifically to support DRM</a>.</p> </li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M201002180"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2010-02</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p>DRM does more nastiness to published works than merely stopping people from looking at and/or copying them. Even when it allows you to look, it harasses you in many ways. Cory Doctorow's article presents <a href="https://boingboing.net/2010/02/18/infographic-buying-d.html"> DVDs as an example</a>.</p> <p>We condemn the propaganda term “pirate” when it is applied to people that share copies. Many of these DVDs are made and distributed commercially; in reference to that practice, “pirate” might be partly justified. But not when they protect users from harassment.</p> <p>The fundamental cause of this harassment, and the fundamental wrong of the DRM in Cars Will Drive Consumers Crazy</a>. </p> DVDs, is the requirement to use nonfree software to play the DVD. Fortunately we have free replacement software.</p> </li> </ul> </div><!-- <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M200811210"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2008-11</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/11/apple-downgrades-macbook-video-drm"> DRM (digital restrictions mechanisms) in MacOS</a>. This article focuses on the fact that a new model of Macbook introduced a requirement for id="content", starts monitors to have malicious hardware, but DRM software in MacOS is involved in activating the include above hardware. The software for accessing iTunes is also responsible.</p> </li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M200803040"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2008-03</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-bandwidth_Digital_Content_Protection"> HDCP</a> is a DRM system that encrypts video and audio data from the processor to the monitor. It is implemented mainly in hardware, but the system software also participates, which makes it qualify as malware.</p> <p>Besides controlling users, HDCP denies their fair-use rights and causes numerous practical problems.</p> </li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M200802190"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2008-02</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2008/02/adobe-pushes-drm-flash"> DRM in Flash Player</a>.</p> </li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M200708130.1"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2007-08</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p><a href="https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2007/08/aacs-tentacles/">DRM in Windows</a>, introduced to cater to <a href="/proprietary/proprietary-drm.html#bluray">Blu-ray</a> disks. (The article talks about how the same malware would later be introduced in MacOS. That had not been done at the time, but it was done subsequently.)</p> </li> <!-- Copied from workshop/mal.rec. Do not edit in proprietary-drm.html. --> <li id="M200703310"> <!--#set var="DATE" value='<small class="date-tag">2007-03</small>' --><!--#echo encoding="none" var="DATE" --> <p>iTunes videos have DRM, which allows Apple to <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FairPlay">dictate where its customers can watch the videos they purchased</a>.</p> </li> </ul> </div> </div> <!--#include virtual="/proprietary/proprietary-menu.html" --> <!--#include virtual="/server/footer.html" --> <div id="footer"> id="footer" role="contentinfo"> <div class="unprintable"> <p>Please send general FSF & GNU inquiries to <a href="mailto:gnu@gnu.org"><gnu@gnu.org></a>. There are also <a href="/contact/">other ways to contact</a> the FSF. 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