Welcome to the Machine Series: DRM

Welcome to the Machine Series: DRM

Digital Restrictions Management is the practice of imposing technological restrictions to control what users do with the digital media and hardware they have purchased. DRM is a program designed to prevent the user from reading, playing, copying or sharing a book, a song, or a video on another device. DRM creates “damaged goods”, like those times when you buy a video game but you cannot play it because the “manufacturer's authentication servers are offline”. DRM allows to conduct large scale surveillance over people's media viewing habits.

Users are forced to use certain hardware or software platforms, limited to accessing their media on a predetermined number of devices, required to have a persistent Internet connection to use local files, have their files tied to an online account, unable to use accessibility software such as screen readers, cut off from accessing media in certain locales, or even stripped of their media by having their files silently and remotely deleted at any time… just like Netflix and YouTube have constructed “anti-features” to prevent customers from viewing their media in certain countries or on a certain number of devices.

Copyright restricts who can distribute media, DRM restricts how users can access their media. Copyright provides leverage against illegal distribution, DRM provides “antifeatures” and/or “crippleware”; and charges for their removal.

So, regardless of all the money the user paid to “own” those toys; the user is merely “renting” them until those toys become obsolte by design and the user blindliy and voluntary replaces them. DRM is here to lock every possible use for the goods one purchases.

“The Right To Read” by the GOAT, Richard Stallman.

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Formats that support DRM compiled by the Free Software Foundation:

Ebooks

• Archos Diffusion - Archos Reader (.aeh)
• Broadband eBooks (BBeB) - Sony media (.lrf; .lrx)
• EPUB - IDPF/EPUB (.epub)
• PalmDOC eReader (formerly Palm Digital Media/Peanut Press) - Palm Media (.pdb)
• Founder Electronics - Apabi Reader (.xeb; .ceb)
• Apple - iBook (.ibooks)
• Amazon Kindle - KF8 (.azw; .kf8)
• Microsoft LIT - Microsoft Reader (.lit)
• Mobipocket - PRC (Palm OS) - (.prc; .mobi)
• Portable Document Format (.pdf)
• TEBR - TEBR (.tebr)

Audio (we recommend using Opus or Vorbis, and FLAC)

• Advanced Audio Coding (.m4p; .aac)
• Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC) - Sony Corporation (.aa3; .oma; .at3)
• MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III (.mp3)
• RealAudio (.ra; .ram)
• Windows Media Audio (.wma)

Video (we recommend using Theora, VP8 and Daala.)

• DivX Media Format (DMF) - DivX, Inc. (.divx)
• Flash Video (.swf; .flv; .f4p)
• M4V - Apple, Inc. (.m4v)
• MPEG-4 Part 14 - MP4 (.mp4)
• QuickTime File Format (QTFF) - Apple, Inc. (.mov; .qt)
• RealVideo (.rm; .rmvb)
• Windows Media Video (.wmv)

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Bienvenido a la Máquina: DRM

Bienvenido a la Máquina: DRM

La Gestión Digital de Restricciones (DRM) es la práctica de imponer restricciones tecnológicas para controlar lo que pueden hacer los usuarios con los medios digitales y el hardware que han adquirido. DRM es un programa diseñado para prevenir que el usuario pueda leer, reproducir, copiar o compartir un libro, una canción o un vídeo en cualquier otro dispositivo. DRM crea «mercancías dañadas»; como en esas ocasiones en las que se compra un juego de video pero no se puede utilizar debido a que los «servidores de autenticación del fabricante están desconectados». DRM permite desplegar una red de vigilancia masiva para monitorear los habitos de las personas.

Los usuarios son obligados a utilizar ciertas plataformas de hardware y software, son limitados a un cierto numero de dispositivos para utilizar «sus» medios digitales, requieren de una conexion de internet estable para poder utilizar estos archivos locales, deben tener una cuenta en linea conectada a estos archivos, no se les permite utilizar software de accesibilidad como lectores de pantalla, no pueden tener acceso desde ciertos puntos geograficos o los archivos pueden ser borrados de manera remota en cualquier momento... como Netflix y YouTube, que tienen «anti-features» para evitar que sus clientes vean estos medios digitales en ciertos países o solo en algunos dispositivos.

Los derechos de autor restringen la distribución de medios, DRM restringe la forma en la que los usuarios accesan sus medios digitales. Los derechos de autor proporcionan una ayuda importante al pelear contra la distribución ilegal de medios digitales, DRM proporciona «anti-features» y/o «crippleware»; e impone multas por su eliminación.

Así que, sin importar todo el dinero que el usuario pagó por «poseer» estos juguetes; el usuario simplemente «renta» los juguetes hasta que se vuelvan obsoletos por diseño; y el usuario ciega y voluntariamente los remplazara por algo nuevo. DRM está aquí para bloquear cualquier uso adicional que se le pueda dar a estos bienes que uno compra.

“The Right To Read ” por Richard Stallman.

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Formatos que soportan DRM compilados por el Free Software Fundation:

Ebooks

• Archos Diffusion - Archos Reader (.aeh) Archos Diffusion - Archos Reader (.aeh)
• Broadband eBooks (BBeB) - Sony media (.lrf; .lrx)
• EPUB - IDPF/EPUB (.epub)
• PalmDOC eReader (antes llamado Palm Digital Media/Peanut Press) - Palm Media (.pdb)
• Founder Electronics - Apabi Reader (.xeb; .ceb)
• Apple - iBook (.ibooks)
• Amazon Kindle - KF8 (.azw; .kf8)
• Microsoft LIT - Microsoft Reader (.lit)
• Mobipocket - PRC (Palm OS) - (.prc; .mobi)
• Portable Document Format (.pdf)
• TEBR - TEBR (.tebr)

Audio (recomendamos usar Opus, Vorbis o FLAC)

• Advanced Audio Coding (.m4p; .aac)
• Adaptive Transform Acoustic Coding (ATRAC) - Sony Corporation (.aa3; .oma; .at3)
• MPEG-1 or MPEG-2 Audio Layer III (.mp3)
• RealAudio (.ra; .ram)
• Windows Media Audio (.wma)

Video (recomendamos usar Theora, VP8 o Daala.)

• DivX Media Format (DMF) - DivX, Inc. (.divx)
• Flash Video (.swf; .flv; .f4p)
• M4V - Apple, Inc. (.m4v)
• MPEG-4 Part 14 - MP4 (.mp4)
• QuickTime File Format (QTFF) - Apple, Inc. (.mov; .qt)
• RealVideo (.rm; .rmvb)
• Windows Media Video (.wmv)

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The hidden dangers of the apps.

The hidden dangers of the apps.

Whoever owns a smartphone or a tablet, or both, knows what an app is. Many businesses know this, so they have developed their own apps. Apps are simple programs that improve the interaction and functionality… they are also friendly to most of the users. By «living in a phone», it could be said that the apps will always be with the user. This is “the truth” about apps. 

 

The Baidu Case was an episode in which millions of Windows and Android users downloaded applications for Baidu (navigation bar and app) that “leaked” the personal information of its users (IMEI, URLS visited, location and even phone models) straight to Baidu's servers.

#UberGate and the travel logs of millions of users being stored in databases... sitting... for real, do you really need me to explain this one?. God View is a “bragadoccio” that Uber developed (internal use only) to allow the company to track the position of "its vehicles and passengers”... on real time.
All this information makes Uber a target of all the government agencies that crave all the tools that will allow them to control their subjects… pardon me, “citizens”.

The importance of Uber… back in 2014, Uber provided transport services to 61% of the Members of Congress in the United States… take a look at the complaint to the FTC because of Uber's privacy policy and its plans to monitor its user's contacts… using promo codes!.

Facebook

Facebook apps leak user's information through iFrames (inline frame or built-in frame). An iFrame is an element within a web site that allows a code to work from the outside. Due to errors in code, because there are always there, the apps' iFrame “leaks” the information to advertisers or analytical and web analytics; giving them access to photos, messages and private information.

Here are Symantec's views on Facebook and its Apps.

End-to-End Encryption or E2EE is a communications system in which only the people involved can read the messages. Not even the service providers have access to the keys.

Whatsapp announced that its messaging services would be encrypted and the only ones that could read the messages are the sender and the receiver (E2EE)… but even so, Whatsapp will store the conversations of its users… for security purposes.

The name of the game is metadata. The issue is data protection and privacy against the things that companies, agencies and governments are doing with the information that each one of us generates through devices, on a daily basis. We are talking about privacy; we are talking about the human right to do whatever the fuck we desire to do, without all these “cyber-actions” going straight to the ledger. These agencies and governments own the ledger, and they will always use it while hiding in the shadows, the idea is to "neutralize" its adversaries by “leaking” the type of information that shocks hypocritical societies and destroys lives… at night, without a sound… no smoking gun.

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