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[–] ram@bookwormstory.social 25 points 1 year ago (4 children)

Imagine if companies could just sue and take down products just because they could theoretically be used to view pirated content (not to pirate, but to view it).

Goodbye Adobe Acrobat Reader, v1 Nintendo Switches, all home PCs, Android phones, and web browsers,

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 16 points 1 year ago

Well, it is essentially what they're doing already with DRM.

Try watching a full resolution stream on any paid streaming service using "bad" software, like Firefox or Linux.

[–] NotATurtle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Why stop there? You could use hardware to run this software.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 1 year ago
[–] victron@programming.dev 3 points 1 year ago

I never saw it that way, but you're right. What a bunch of hypocrites.

[–] ReluctantZen 1 points 1 year ago

web browsers

Hasn't something like this happened already? Not sure what platform it was (Android TV maybe?), but I vaguely remember something like that.