Offering a clean, ad free, usable storefront to purchase media would do more to prevent piracy than anything.
But corpos dont like that.
Comment on Amazon is making it impossible to remove the DRM from Kindle Books
tiramichu@sh.itjust.works 7 hours agoFor real.
When I still had Netflix and Disney+ I’d want to watch a show on my PC, but I’d just get black screen and no audio because something about my setup the DRM didn’t like, possibly that I had USB displaylink monitors.
So I had to watch on another device.
DRM isn’t stopping any pirates. It’s just making life a pain for paying customers.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
namingthingsiseasy@programming.dev 4 hours ago
Of course. It’s all about control. They see users as property, an object to be sold and traded.
Do not ever allow yourselves to be disrespected like this.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 3 hours ago
Try explaining any of this to my friends lol. Obsessed with Google, the tok, xitter, and shitty data stealing llms. Disgusting garbage.
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 6 hours ago
That could’ve been iTunes if their interface didn’t suck ass and if they didn’t go for the subscription-only model in Apple Music.
I swear for years it was THE place to buy music. I mean I never did, I didn’t have access to a card with online payments enabled as a teen, so I just pirated everything anyway. But it seemed like the default place.
bridgeenjoyer@sh.itjust.works 6 hours ago
I was so out of the loop a few years ago I found out they killed iTunes and was like WHY. idiotic.
beejjorgensen@lemmy.sdf.org 1 hour ago
I couldn’t get Netflix to play at high resolution on my old Roku because of some DRM crap. And I was a legit customer! Once again, piracy would have provided a superior experience.