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0 pointsIceDane4y ago0 comments

People crack DRM all day, every day and they have ever since it was invented. It's never stopped. It's even a fairly well-known thing for people to buy games and then use the cracked versions without DRMs because they tend to be so invasive it can result in reduced performance.

I'm sure some people have been arrested and prosecuted but that's just symbolic scapegoat tactics and a pebble trying to stop the tide.

The laws you are describing are never going to be put into effect. It's just not going to happen. I don't believe the EU is full of people stupid enough to let it happen.. and even if it did, all the member states don't just automatically adopt and enforce every law immediately without thought. There are plenty of reasonable member states that just wouldn't accept these insane laws, or have populations which wouldn't accept them.

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ben_w4y ago

> The laws you are describing are never going to be put into effect. It's just not going to happen. I don't believe the EU is full of people stupid enough to let it happen.. and even if it did, all the member states don't just automatically adopt and enforce every law immediately without thought. There are plenty of reasonable member states that just wouldn't accept these insane laws, or have populations which wouldn't accept them.

I think that’s wishful thinking, given the previous experience of Clipper chip and 40-bit encryption rules in the USA and the Investigatory Powers Act in the UK.

Even as a British national living in Berlin, when I submit an app to Apple I have to agree to let the US government know about any use of cryptography by the app (by my reading including HTTPS, which is hope is merely legal caution rather than actual obligation).

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