Valve’s early anti-piracy efforts, which eventually led to the Steam platform, were sparked by co-founder Monica Harrington’s nephew using her money to buy a CD burner for copying games, she revealed at last week’s Game Developers Conference. Harringto…

Apple users noticed a change in 2023, “when streaming platforms like Netflix, HBO Max, Amazon Prime, and the Criterion Channel imposed a quiet embargo on the screenshot,” noted the film blog Screen Slate:

At first, there were workarounds: users could …

“Amazon has long allowed you to download its ebooks to your computer,” notes PCMag.com, “where they can serve as a backup or be transferred to other devices.
“However, that feature will end on February 26, 2025, along with the ability to transfer book…

From science fiction author/blogger/technology activist Cory Doctorow:

Right to repair has no cannier, more dedicated adversary than Apple, a company whose most innovative work is dreaming up new ways to sneakily sabotage electronics repair while clai…

Denuvo has become the first security partner to be added to the Nintendo Developer Portal. According to Video Games Chronicle, Switch developers can use Denuvo’s tools for their games to block users from playing them on PC emulators. From the report: “…

Google’s newest proposed web standard is… DRM? Over the weekend the Internet got wind of this proposal for a “Web Environment Integrity API. ” From a report: The explainer is authored by four Googlers, including at least one person on Chrome’s “Priva…

The Internet Archive has taken the rather unusual step of sending a DMCA notice to protect the copyrights of book publishers and authors. The non-profit organization asked GitHub to remove a tool that can strip DRM from books in its library. The protec…

An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: Simply mentioning the name “Denuvo” among some gamers is pretty much guaranteed to get you an instant, strong reaction. Just look at the comment threads underneath any Ars article covering Denuvo a…

To celebrate this year’s “Public Domain Day,” the Internet Archive “asked people to submit short films highlighting anything that was going to be made available in the Public Domain in 2023.”

For the contest, vintage images and sounds were woven into …

Slashdot has covered the legal hijinx of Malibu Media over the years. Now Ars Technica reports that the studio could be destroyed by unpaid taxes:

Over the past decade, Malibu Media has emerged as a prominent so-called “copyright troll,” suing thousan…