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lopisyesterday at 2:52 PM1 replyview on HN

But this has always been the case. The circumvention protections certainly became more sophisticated as hardware and software evolved.


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advaelyesterday at 3:44 PM

Yes, now they involve calling the cops to enforce a law that microsoft lawyers wrote and then sent lobbyists to bully or trick most of the world into signing. The corruption of the rule of law in modern nation-states into effectively brutal mafia-style enforcement of otherwise untenable business models certainly has facilitated quite a shift in the hardware multinationals use to secure their various unfathomably excessive bags