By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 25/06/2026But the *legal term* for what a Blue Box does is "toll theft," which is to say, Apple - a company *literally founded on theft* - now makes the majority of its profits by convincing people that making a competing product is *literally* stealing. 29/ 1377 0
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 25/06/2026A company whose founders got their seed capital by marketing illegal circumvention devices now markets products designed to make it a *crime* for a rightsholder to sell their own work to you. 30/ 1283 0
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 25/06/2026I've long said that "every pirate wants to be an admiral": pluralistic.net/2025/03/04/o... But this is just a little too on the nose. 31/ 1253 0