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The European Pirate Party is doing good work addressing this bullshit :)

cross-posted from: https://feddit.de/post/13723083

Original post by Patrick Breyer (MEP (member of the European Parliament) for the pirate party) on Mastodon: https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/112716177887148583

In reference to a case detailed in this talk at 37C3: https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_trains

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[-] PhobosAnomaly@feddit.uk 19 points 4 months ago

Absolutely love that CCC talk, very interesting and quite entertaining too.

Cheeky bastards.

[-] bier@lemmy.blahaj.zone 3 points 4 months ago

https://youtu.be/XrlrbfGZo2k that talk was on of the funniest that year

[-] Emerald@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

*grabs piped bot and pushes them down*

Here's an alternative CCC link:

https://media.ccc.de/v/37c3-12142-breaking_drm_in_polish_trains

[-] domi@lemmy.secnd.me 3 points 4 months ago

Did anything ever come from this? I imagine that any of the railway companies affected would want to sue?

Not much possibility for argumenting about security reasons either when you literally have the GPS coordinates of your competitors in your code.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 6 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)
  1. Criminal investigation by Polish goverment
  2. Copyright lawsuit by train manufacturer against researchers
[-] monstoor@lemmy.dbzer0.com 6 points 4 months ago

Reported on The Register, too: https://www.theregister.com/2023/12/08/polish_trains_geofenced_allegation/

[-] lud@lemm.ee 5 points 4 months ago

This has nothing to do with piracy.

[-] ShepherdPie@midwest.social 12 points 4 months ago

I think it may tangentially as you could argue hacking into the software to modify and bypass software locks is akin to piracy.

[-] shotgun_surgery@links.hackliberty.org 4 points 4 months ago

I wonder if instead of pushing for right to repair, wouldn't it be better to push for the abolition of intellectual property altogether.

[-] Emerald@lemmy.dbzer0.com 9 points 4 months ago

Those are two seperate issues really. You can abolish IP but a company could still produce products that aren't repairable

[-] shotgun_surgery@links.hackliberty.org 1 points 4 months ago

True, but they'd have to compete against alternatives that are repairable, because the IP no longer impedes that competition.

[-] uis@lemm.ee 3 points 4 months ago

Fuck, I forgot to post it on piracy community. I posted it only in RtR one.

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