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   Alexandre Oliva (lxo@snac.lx.oliva.nom.br)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 15:02:34 JST Alexandre Oliva

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   • John Wilker 👨🏽‍💻
   • David Scott Moyer
   • ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)
   by stealing rights from the rest of us? no, that's not cool at all, even if there was any relationship between distributors who exploit authors and readers imposing DRM and authors getting paid.
   
   it's not theft when I lend a book to a friend, is it? it's not theft when I read parts of the book out loud to the class. it's not theft when I copy paragraphs for commentary. these are readers' rights that DRM platforms steals from us, on top of stealing control over our own computers from us.
   
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     David Scott Moyer (farbel@mas.to)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 15:02:35 JST David Scott Moyer

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     • John Wilker 👨🏽‍💻
     • ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)

     @chiraag @jwilker @scifi @bookstodon Why shouldn't authors and other artists be protected from theft?

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     ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him) (chiraag@mastodon.online)'s status on Tuesday, 20-May-2025 15:02:36 JST ಚಿರಾಗ್ 🌹✊🏾Ⓥ🌱🇵🇸 (he/him)

     • John Wilker 👨🏽‍💻

     @jwilker @scifi @bookstodon Only if DRM-free.