By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026The executives who made billions after losing their bid to ban the VCR wanted to ensure that no one would ever be so "impolite" as to force them to make billions of dollars against their will ever again. 45/ 11588
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026They partnered with electronics firms to ensure that the VCR's successor technologies would only have those features that they approved. 46/ 113910
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026That's why DVD *players* are not DVD *recorders*: the consortium that developed the DVD embedded "hook IP" in the technology. " 47/ 219311
