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Comment Re:Get cracking (Score 1) 371

I whole-heartedly agree with what you say, but please keep in mind that no matter what the strategy, in the end, the DRM'ed content has to be accessible, and therefore can be grabbed and stripped of the DRM one way or another.
Frankly, if the content is video, there is no "equivalent to showing an image of text". How would you go about it, hide the video and instead publish an audio file that describes the movie? ;).

DRM is shit, and if the new DRM in firefox can't be disabled at runtime, then i'll disable it at compile time, and if it can't be disabled at compile-time, i'll patch it out. It's just probably not the end of freedom on the internet, for "us geeks" anyway. Maybe it is for average users, but as you correctly point out yourself, those tend to not care. So why care about them?

Comment Re:Sorry about being "reality based" (Score 1) 469

I don't see how it's a goalpost change since I didn't change your original statement except omitting the meaningless "you can think of" part. Now that it's clear that your argument actually (and intentionally, it seems) depended on me failing to think of sufficient such devices, then i don't think i want to continue this stupid conversation.

you have to admit that there are a very large number of commercial devices with busybox on them.

I don't deny that, but in comparison to the much greater number of commercial devices without busybox on them, it doesn't strik me as too significant.

You said it didn't get used commercially,

I also said this has gotten better lately. You should pay better attention since you obviously expect me to do the same.

Comment Re: Homegrown (Score 4, Insightful) 111

There's an implicit "unless you *really* know what you're doing" to the sentence, which just tends to not be the case for most people, which is mainly because most people aren't crypto nerds, and the consequences of failing crypto are typically serious. Much more serious than doing your own science at home (provided you aren't going nuclear; "don't do your own nuclear science at home" doesn't sound so absurd, does it?) and ending up with wrong results, or composing music and ending up with horrible garbage.

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