When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their …
The prohibition on circumventing digital rights management, or DRM—embodied in Section 1201 of the DMCA, Article 6 of the EUCD and similar laws around the world—makes software the most copyrighted class of works in the world. Software authors (or rather, the corporations that employ them) enjoy more restrictions under copyright than the most talented composer, the most brilliant sculptor or the greatest writer.