alt Hacker News> By this logic your entire computer is a tool to bypass copyright.
That is the logic of copyright monopolists.
Free computing is subversive. It has the power to wipe out their entire business model like it was nothing. They don't want that. That's why they sign deals with the likes of Intel and AMD so that our processors come pwned straight off the factory.
"Our" computers haven't been ours for a long time now. They hide secrets from us. They have "protected video paths", "remote attestation", "platform keys", etc. These are all tools the monopolists use to make "our" computers do their bidding. Run all programs, except the ones that affect our bottom line. We want to copy but monopolists say no, and our computers obey.
Exactly. People have been unsuccessfully ringing the bell on this ever since DeCSS. It's 25 years this month. The general population isn't informed about this, they don't care and they don't have the capacity to know and even if they did, they wouldn't want to know. Thankfully, people are slowly waking up to this. With an ECI like Stop Killing Games, you don't need the genpop to decide that this is bad. You just need a million good men and women. It's much easier to find a million people who understand something is a problem and sign an EU initiative than to find 6 billion people who will understand something is a problem AND vote with their wallet.