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0 pointskortilla5y ago0 comments

> but clearly a lot of effort has gone into it and I find it "gross and immoral"

Wait until you find out how much effort goes into DRM schemes. It doesn’t make them any less anti-user which squarely lands in the immoral category for lots of people. Amount of effort and the engineering soundness of the design have no bearing on whether something is gross and/or immoral.

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scrollaway5y ago· 1 in thread

wtf, you're comparing the work of someone who's a bit overexcited about redesigning the web, to DRM

do you even have an argument here?

kortillaOP5y ago

I’m refuting the argument that someone spending a lot of time and engineering on something means it can’t be dismissed as “gross an immoral”.

Proposing a system that destroys the open web with a bunch of applications that break link following, screen readers, text only browsers, etc is gross and immoral - no matter how sound the implementation.

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