As far as I know, that would be legal. It’s the circumventing of the encryption that’s problematic. I am not a law stylist though.
Get serious. Everyone knows paper beats rock
In the USA if you are circumventing some digital lock (encryption) in order to create the backup, it is illegal. The DMCA fucked us out of our rights to an archival copy.
The owner of the site (Ernest, IIRC) has some health issues that have kept him from being as active as he had wanted. He also wrote the frontend code as an alternative to the Lemmy software. Mbin continues onward as a fork of Kbin.
I wish him the best. I hope he gets better. I know too well what chronic illness can do to a person.
Thank you for that article! He’s a truly good writer, and I read a couple more of his entries before I bookmarked his site.
The DRM Panic handler is part of the kernel's Direct Rendering Manager, and it can display a message even if text consoles have been disabled. Now in kernel 6.11, the display can be graphical, enabling snazzy new features such as showing what went wrong in the form of QR codes.
As Phoronix describes, thanks to Raspberry Pi developers, in 6.11 DRM support extends to displaying a black-and-white TV-compatible signal. Pi hardware is often deployed in digital signage, CCTV systems, and so on, and it's entirely possible that no better display may be available. Now kernel 6.11 can output over old-fashioned low-rez monochrome video, as shown via a composite video output. We hope you never see it, but if you do, take consolation that your open source black screen of death can now be grainier and less colorful than ever.
You can be reasonably sure more unpopular changes to the site are incoming if they’re preemptively preventing blowback at scale.
I wonder if this is related to the comments Square Enix made about PlayStation exclusivity with respect to the last FFVII remake entry. Maybe they’re going to distance themselves from being so strongly associated with the PlayStation brand due to what they perceived as underperformance.
This one stayed around for significantly longer than two weeks
I suppose they could have had evidence that the positive reviews were paid for and manufactured. Not that I trust Google to do anything that isn’t to their direct benefit.
Got it. Thank you.
There’s a ROM download on the developer’s page. Does anyone know if that’s a beta version or a demo or…?
I just love to hate those two, so the actors certainly played their parts very well.
Wouldn’t you agree, my child?
(You read this in her voice, didn’t you?)
Thank you for working on this and for sharing with everyone!
The food-based psychological torture she puts Miles through is entertaining at least
My windowless, vault-like office needed an inspirational message
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