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Pluralistic: They brick you because they can (24 May 2024)


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  • They brick you because they can: Samsung and Spotify are too big to care (and that's just the 'S'es).
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Author Cory DoctorowPosted on May 24, 2024June 1, 2024Categories UncategorizedTags 404 media, anticircumvention, autoenshittification, bricked, car thing, constraints, darth vader mba, demon-haunted, digital millennium copyright act, dmca 1201, enshittification, felony contempt of business model, internet of shit, leaks, parts pairing, r2r, right to repair, samsung, section 1201, spotify, too big to care1 Comment on Pluralistic: They brick you because they can (24 May 2024)

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