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The European Pirate Party is doing good work addressing this bullshit :)

cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/13723083

Original post by Patrick Breyer (MEP (member of the European Parliament) for the pirate party) on Mastodon: https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/112716177887148583

In reference to a case detailed in this talk at 37C3: https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_trains

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[-] [email protected] 39 points 1 week ago

Absolutely love that CCC talk, very interesting and quite entertaining too.

Cheeky bastards.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

https://youtu.be/XrlrbfGZo2k that talk was on of the funniest that year

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

*grabs piped bot and pushes them down*

Here's an alternative CCC link:

https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_trains

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

Did anything ever come from this? I imagine that any of the railway companies affected would want to sue?

Not much possibility for argumenting about security reasons either when you literally have the GPS coordinates of your competitors in your code.

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago)

Criminal investigation by Polish goverment
Copyright lawsuit by train manufacturer against researchers

[-] [email protected] 6 points 1 week ago

Reported on The Register, too: https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/08/polish_trains_geofenced_allegation/

[-] [email protected] 5 points 1 week ago

This has nothing to do with piracy.

[-] [email protected] 13 points 1 week ago

I think it may tangentially as you could argue hacking into the software to modify and bypass software locks is akin to piracy.

[-] [email protected] 4 points 1 week ago

I wonder if instead of pushing for right to repair, wouldn't it be better to push for the abolition of intellectual property altogether.

[-] [email protected] 10 points 1 week ago

Those are two seperate issues really. You can abolish IP but a company could still produce products that aren't repairable

[-] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

True, but they'd have to compete against alternatives that are repairable, because the IP no longer impedes that competition.

[-] [email protected] 3 points 1 week ago

Fuck, I forgot to post it on piracy community. I posted it only in RtR one.

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