It criminalizes production and dissemination of technology, devices, or services intended to circumvent measures that control access to copyrighted works (commonly known as digital rights management or DRM).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Millennium_Copyright_Act

DVDs have copy protection.

It’s also how it is perfectly legal to borrow DVDs from your local library and rip those, too.

You got a source on that? I don’t think that falls under fair use.

However, the owner of the copy of the book will not be able to make new copies of the book because the first-sale doctrine does not limit the restrictions allowed by the copyright owner’s reproduction right.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine

In the US, because of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, it is illegal to defeat any sort of digital copy protection. That’s why it’s ok to rip CDs to your iPod, but you can’t rip DVDs to your computer.

Ripping a DVD I own to my hard drive for my personal use.

It would cost like $1k for some YouTuber to buy a few burner android phones, slap prepaid sims in them, and then talk to them about their love of Hyundai and protein powder. It would blow the whole lid off whatever conspiracy were all just resigning ourselves to.

Such an easy thing to test and yet there’s zero evidence that it’s happening. At least the way people assume.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gell-Mann_amnesia_effect

What’s cool is you can actually do this for music, but in a way that humans can’t even detect it.

For sure. Given that public roads are the most horrendously undertaxed public resources out there, it’s especially irritating when folks go out of their way to use them in the most self serving fashion imaginable.

Private tracks exist. They don’t mind engine noise.

Yet they always wear dark colors. Hmm…

I drive electric, so…yes?

There are ways to enjoy cars off public roads and away from private residences.

Steve Jobs

Allegedly hit by the street view car.

Probably chasing this rabbit https://maps.app.goo.gl/JwY2fck8fi1wE5w66

Their first name is “Mr.”

https://nebula.tv/

Lots of popular Youtubers are already there, and they strip the sponsor segments out of their content too.

For anyone struggling, lemmy web interface added the colon into the URL for the blog post link. Here’s a clickable version without the colon:

https://blog.codingconfessions.com/p/how-unix-spell-ran-in-64kb-ram

A believed a guy who said he just got out of jail and needed $10 for a bus ride home. I was 17. Found an ATM, gave him the cash, saw him walking around the mall with his girlfriend 20 minutes later.

We bought a shower mat that reeked of plastic offgassing, so we left it outside to air out for a month, and it still smelled like shit, so we threw it away.

Didn’t some magazines ship software with plastic records that could be played on a conventional record player?

To use your car metaphor, there was a time when you basically needed to know how a car worked in order to own/operate one. I’m talking like the 1910s-1920s. They were unreliable, simply made, manual transmission, hand crank start, and needed a lot of maintenance.

Millennials grew up at a time when you needed to have some understanding of how a computer worked in order to do basically anything.

I suppose the issue is that the car metaphor breaks down because a vehicle really only does one thing. Push pedal and go. Maybe worry about snow conditions if that affects you.

Meanwhile, computers can still be used to do thousands of different tasks and the only thread tying all of those tasks together is that they’re done by the same machine. So knowing fundamentals about the machine gives you access to a lot of capability vs. just memorizing how to do a few tasks.