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 <p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   "><span class="lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-012">The holiday season</span>  is upon us again, which can only mean one thing: an onslaught of <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/spotify/" id="auto-tag_spotify" data-tag="spotify">Spotify</a> Wrapped posts on social media. But not everyone is a proponent of the streaming service, which is notoriously bad at paying musicians. </p>

 <p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   ">This year, many popular artists recorded videos for their top fans, including <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/taylor-swift/" id="auto-tag_taylor-swift" data-tag="taylor-swift">Taylor Swift</a>, <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/bad-bunny/" id="auto-tag_bad-bunny" data-tag="bad-bunny">Bad Bunny</a>, and “Weird Al” Yankovic. Yankovic had some choice words in his message, which was shared by amused fans on X, formerly Twitter. </p>

 <p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   ">It’s my understanding that I had over 80 million streams on Spotify this year,” Yankovic said in his video. “So, if I’m doing the math right that means I earned $12. Enough to get myself a nice sandwich at a restaurant.”</p>

 <p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   ">He added, “So from the bottom of my heart, thanks for your support and thanks for the sandwich.” 
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 <p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   ">Earlier this week, Spotify <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-top-artist-spotify-2023-1234902602/">unveiled</a> its end-of-year<a rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" href="https://www.spotify.com/us/wrapped/?destination=datastories" target="_blank"> Spotify Wrapped data</a>, which placed Taylor Swift at the top of the list of the most-streamed artists both globally and in the United States. It marked the first time Swift has topped the year-end artist global chart in her career.
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 <p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   ">Worldwide, the singer tallied more than 26.1 billion streams, dethroning last year’s chart leader Bad Bunny, who landed in second place this year after finishing atop the chart the previous three years. Also making an appearance on the ranking is Lana Del Rey, who collaborated with Swift on <em><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/taylor-swift-midnights-1234611211/">Midnights</a></em>‘ “<a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-taylor-swift-snow-on-the-beach-interview-1234892236/">Snow on the Beach</a>” and released her album <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/lana-del-rey-did-you-know-theres-a-tunnel-under-ocean-blvd-2-1234702893/"><em>Did You Know There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd</em></a> in March.

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 <p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   "><span class="lrv-u-text-transform-uppercase u-letter-spacing-012">The holiday season</span>  is upon us again, which can only mean one thing: an onslaught of <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/spotify/" id="auto-tag_spotify" data-tag="spotify">Spotify</a> Wrapped posts on social media. But not everyone is a proponent of the streaming service, which is notoriously bad at paying musicians. </p>



 <p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   ">This year, many popular artists recorded videos for their top fans, including <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/taylor-swift/" id="auto-tag_taylor-swift" data-tag="taylor-swift">Taylor Swift</a>, <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/t/bad-bunny/" id="auto-tag_bad-bunny" data-tag="bad-bunny">Bad Bunny</a>, and “Weird Al” Yankovic. Yankovic had some choice words in his message, which was shared by amused fans on X, formerly Twitter. </p>



 <p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   ">It’s my understanding that I had over 80 million streams on Spotify this year,” Yankovic said in his video. “So, if I’m doing the math right that means I earned $12. Enough to get myself a nice sandwich at a restaurant.”</p>



 <p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   ">He added, “So from the bottom of my heart, thanks for your support and thanks for the sandwich.” 
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 <p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   ">Earlier this week, Spotify <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/taylor-swift-top-artist-spotify-2023-1234902602/">unveiled</a> its end-of-year<a rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow" href="https://www.spotify.com/us/wrapped/?destination=datastories" target="_blank"> Spotify Wrapped data</a>, which placed Taylor Swift at the top of the list of the most-streamed artists both globally and in the United States. It marked the first time Swift has topped the year-end artist global chart in her career.
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 <p class="paragraph larva // lrv-u-line-height-copy  lrv-a-font-body-l   ">Worldwide, the singer tallied more than 26.1 billion streams, dethroning last year’s chart leader Bad Bunny, who landed in second place this year after finishing atop the chart the previous three years. Also making an appearance on the ranking is Lana Del Rey, who collaborated with Swift on <em><a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/taylor-swift-midnights-1234611211/">Midnights</a></em>‘ “<a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/lana-del-rey-taylor-swift-snow-on-the-beach-interview-1234892236/">Snow on the Beach</a>” and released her album <a href="https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-album-reviews/lana-del-rey-did-you-know-theres-a-tunnel-under-ocean-blvd-2-1234702893/"><em>Did You Know There’s a Tunnel Under Ocean Blvd</em></a> in March.

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 <p>i hate to break character, especially months after a post, but i feel people need a little more context to read this post than assumed:</p>
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 <p>this is a mean post about a thing that annoys me</p>
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 <p>cory doctorow is the originator of the term "enshitification", and he is by any and all measures, a disney adult. that's the joke in the title. i feel like stewart lee having to spell things out here, but understanding this joke is the entry qualifications for the rest of the flippant commentary.</p>
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 <p>the really big take home message, for the people still following along, is this: enshitification, albeit defined in market terms, is regularly used as if it's a problem capitalism is afflicted by, rather than a problem capitalism causes.</p>
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 <p>the other, less important message: i find the people who use this term in this way annoying, and unfortunately many of them found this post. i did not realise how deeply upset people would take jokes at the expense of "new york times readers" but in hindsight, you can only read so many op-eds before clutching your own pearls on impulse.</p>
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 <p>i use "walking past a picket to complain to the manager" to talk about that "i'm politically liberal but why can't protests be quieter" mentality, the idea that any and all problems can be fixed by the regular channels. the person in question is used to being at the top of some power structure. apparently i need to explain this too. go figure.</p>
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 <p>got all that? great.</p>
 <p>here's the original inflammatory post. please enjoy posting about it in places i can't see:</p>
 <p>look, i hate the term "enshittification" as much as anyone. it feels like one of those made up swear words that came out of a doctorwho/supernatural fanfic, and for a while i was happy to continue dismissing it on those terms</p>
 <p>it took me a while to realise that i hate it for entirely legitimate reasons too.</p>
 <p>when people say "enshittification", it's as if their core complaint about capitalism is the customer service, rather than the systematic exploitation of other people. people don't talk about union busting as "enshittification", or wage theft as "enshittification", let alone deeper systematic issues.</p>
 <p>people talk about enshittification to mean "i can't watch my favourite tv show any more"</p>
 <hr><p>it's a "things are more expensive now" and a "products aren't made to the same qualities they used to" nostalgia. it's a cutesy term just gauche enough to raise eyebrows at the dinner party. it's a neologism for new york times readers hoping to look a little more progressive, but even then, that's not why i hate the term "enshittification"</p>
 <p>the reason i hate the term is simple: it's as if the problems of capitalism boil down to a few greedy ceos looking to make a quick buck, despite all evidence to the contrary. yes, the original coining of the term talks about "two sided markets", but people don't really use the term in that way, and more importantly, this sort of race to the bottom exists in many other regular interactions with capitalism.</p>
 <p>compare: buying a car might as well be a hostage negotiation. arguing over hospital bills a kafkaesque nightmare. ask your grandma about long distance calling plans. none of it gets called "enshittification" because no-one is old enough to remember when any of these things were good—or at least better than they are today.</p>
 <p>that's my problem: enshittification is not what companies become, it's what companies set out to be. enshittification is talked about as if it's an affliction affecting capitalism, rather than the desired outcome.</p>
 <p>every venture backed company has the following plan: spend a lot of money to gain a monopoly, use the monopoly to price gouge everyone, replace all core services with subcontractors until the company only exists to add a 5% convenience charge on all transactions.</p>
 <p>the ones that do not have this plan will be acquired by the ones that do. this is the end state of every successful company, it is not a unique outcome, or a new means of operation, just one that's been more successful of late with the rise of online platforms.</p>
 <p>enshittification is someone experiencing the systematic problems of capitalism for the first time, and not seeing the tip of the iceberg for what it represents. it's walking past a picket line to complain to the manager. it's being mad that the star wars show got cancelled and hoping awareness will fix it.</p>
 <p>"i thought you busted unions to make me a better sandwich, what gives?"</p>
 <p>that said and done, i'll probably stick to telling people it sounds like a doctor who fan swear word, because at least they'll cringe as much as I do when i hear it.</p>
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 <p>i hate to break character, especially months after a post, but i feel people need a little more context to read this post than assumed:</p>
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 <p>cory doctorow is the originator of the term "enshitification", and he is by any and all measures, a disney adult. that's the joke in the title. i feel like stewart lee having to spell things out here, but understanding this joke is the entry qualifications for the rest of the flippant commentary.</p>
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 <p>the really big take home message, for the people still following along, is this: enshitification, albeit defined in market terms, is regularly used as if it's a problem capitalism is afflicted by, rather than a problem capitalism causes.</p>
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 <p>the other, less important message: i find the people who use this term in this way annoying, and unfortunately many of them found this post. i did not realise how deeply upset people would take jokes at the expense of "new york times readers" but in hindsight, you can only read so many op-eds before clutching your own pearls on impulse.</p>
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 <p>got all that? great.</p>
 <p>here's the original inflammatory post. please enjoy posting about it in places i can't see:</p>
 <p>look, i hate the term "enshittification" as much as anyone. it feels like one of those made up swear words that came out of a doctorwho/supernatural fanfic, and for a while i was happy to continue dismissing it on those terms</p>
 <p>it took me a while to realise that i hate it for entirely legitimate reasons too.</p>
 <p>when people say "enshittification", it's as if their core complaint about capitalism is the customer service, rather than the systematic exploitation of other people. people don't talk about union busting as "enshittification", or wage theft as "enshittification", let alone deeper systematic issues.</p>
 <p>people talk about enshittification to mean "i can't watch my favourite tv show any more"</p><hr>
 <p>it's a "things are more expensive now" and a "products aren't made to the same qualities they used to" nostalgia. it's a cutesy term just gauche enough to raise eyebrows at the dinner party. it's a neologism for new york times readers hoping to look a little more progressive, but even then, that's not why i hate the term "enshittification"</p>
 <p>the reason i hate the term is simple: it's as if the problems of capitalism boil down to a few greedy ceos looking to make a quick buck, despite all evidence to the contrary. yes, the original coining of the term talks about "two sided markets", but people don't really use the term in that way, and more importantly, this sort of race to the bottom exists in many other regular interactions with capitalism.</p>
 <p>compare: buying a car might as well be a hostage negotiation. arguing over hospital bills a kafkaesque nightmare. ask your grandma about long distance calling plans. none of it gets called "enshittification" because no-one is old enough to remember when any of these things were good—or at least better than they are today.</p>
 <p>that's my problem: enshittification is not what companies become, it's what companies set out to be. enshittification is talked about as if it's an affliction affecting capitalism, rather than the desired outcome.</p>
 <p>every venture backed company has the following plan: spend a lot of money to gain a monopoly, use the monopoly to price gouge everyone, replace all core services with subcontractors until the company only exists to add a 5% convenience charge on all transactions.</p>
 <p>the ones that do not have this plan will be acquired by the ones that do. this is the end state of every successful company, it is not a unique outcome, or a new means of operation, just one that's been more successful of late with the rise of online platforms.</p>
 <p>enshittification is someone experiencing the systematic problems of capitalism for the first time, and not seeing the tip of the iceberg for what it represents. it's walking past a picket line to complain to the manager. it's being mad that the star wars show got cancelled and hoping awareness will fix it.</p>
 <p>"i thought you busted unions to make me a better sandwich, what gives?"</p>
 <p>that said and done, i'll probably stick to telling people it sounds like a doctor who fan swear word, because at least they'll cringe as much as I do when i hear it.</p>
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 <p>i've locked this because enough people are misbehaving in the comments, and frankly i do not have time for this mastodon bullshit</p>
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 <p>20 years ago, I got in a (friendly) public spat with Chris Anderson, who was then the editor in chief of <em>Wired</em>. I'd publicly noted my disappointment with glowing <em>Wired</em> reviews of DRM-encumbered digital devices, prompting Anderson to call me unrealistic for expecting the magazine to condemn gadgets for their DRM:</p>
 <p><a href="https://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/2004/12/is_drm_evil.html">https://longtail.typepad.com/the_long_tail/2004/12/is_drm_evil.html</a></p>
 <p>I replied in public, telling him that he'd misunderstood. This wasn't an issue of ideological purity – it was about good reviewing practice. <em>Wired</em> was telling readers to buy a product because it had features x, y and z, but at any time in the future, without warning, without recourse, the vendor could switch off any of those features:</p>
 <p><a href="https://memex.craphound.com/2004/12/29/cory-responds-to-wired-editor-on-drm/">https://memex.craphound.com/2004/12/29/cory-responds-to-wired-editor-on-drm/</a></p>
 <p>I proposed that all <em>Wired</em> endorsements for DRM-encumbered products should come with this disclaimer:</p>
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  WARNING: THIS DEVICE’S FEATURES ARE SUBJECT TO REVOCATION WITHOUT NOTICE, ACCORDING TO TERMS SET OUT IN SECRET NEGOTIATIONS. YOUR INVESTMENT IS CONTINGENT ON THE GOODWILL OF THE WORLD’S MOST PARANOID, TECHNOPHOBIC ENTERTAINMENT EXECS. THIS DEVICE AND DEVICES LIKE IT ARE TYPICALLY USED TO CHARGE YOU FOR THINGS YOU USED TO GET FOR FREE — BE SURE TO FACTOR IN THE PRICE OF BUYING ALL YOUR MEDIA OVER AND OVER AGAIN. AT NO TIME IN HISTORY HAS ANY ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY GOTTEN A SWEET DEAL LIKE THIS FROM THE ELECTRONICS PEOPLE, BUT THIS TIME THEY’RE GETTING A TOTAL WALK. HERE, PUT THIS IN YOUR MOUTH, IT’LL MUFFLE YOUR WHIMPERS.
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 <p><em>Wired</em> didn't take me up on this suggestion.</p>
 <p>But I was right. The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you've <em>already paid for</em> is a powerful temptation to corporations. Inkjet printers were always a sleazy business, but once these printers got directly connected to the internet, companies like HP started pushing out "security updates" that modified your printer to make it reject the third-party ink you'd paid for:</p>
 <p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/ink-stained-wretches-battle-soul-digital-freedom-taking-place-inside-your-printer">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/ink-stained-wretches-battle-soul-digital-freedom-taking-place-inside-your-printer</a></p>
 <p>Now, this scam wouldn't work if you could just put things back the way they were before the "update," which is where the DRM comes in. A thicket of IP laws make reverse-engineering DRM-encumbered products into a <em>felony</em>. Combine always-on network access with indiscriminate criminalization of user modification, and the enshittification will follow, as surely as night follows day.</p>
 <p>This is the root of all the right to repair shenanigans. Sure, companies withhold access to diagnostic codes and parts, but codes can be extracted and parts can be cloned. The real teeth in blocking repair comes from the law, not the tech. The company that makes McDonald's wildly unreliable McFlurry machines makes a fortune charging franchisees to fix these eternally broken appliances. When a third party threatened this racket by reverse-engineering the DRM that blocked independent repair, they got buried in legal threats:</p>
 <p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/20/euthanize-rentier-enablers/#cold-war">https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/20/euthanize-rentier-enablers/#cold-war</a></p>
 <p>Everybody loves this racket. In Poland, a team of security researchers at the OhMyHack conference just presented their teardown of the anti-repair features in NEWAG Impuls <em>locomotives</em>. NEWAG boobytrapped their trains to try and detect if they've been independently serviced, and to respond to any unauthorized repairs by bricking themselves:</p>
 <p><a href="https://mamot.fr/@q3k@hackerspace.pl/111528162905209453">https://mamot.fr/@q3k@hackerspace.pl/111528162905209453</a></p>
 <p>Poland is part of the EU, meaning that they are required to uphold the provisions of the 2001 EU Copyright Directive, including Article 6, which bans this kind of reverse-engineering. The researchers are planning to present their work again at the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg this month – Germany is also a party to the EUCD. The threat to researchers from presenting this work is real – but so is the threat to conferences that host them:</p>
 <p><a href="https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/researchers-face-legal-threats-over-sdmi-hack/">https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/researchers-face-legal-threats-over-sdmi-hack/</a></p>
 <p>20 years ago, Chris Anderson told me that it was unrealistic to expect tech companies to refuse demands for DRM from the entertainment companies whose media they hoped to play. My argument – then and now – was that any tech company that sells you a gadget that can have its features revoked is defrauding you. You're paying for x, y and z – and if they are contractually required to remove x and y on demand, they are selling you something that you can't rely on, without making that clear to you.</p>
 <p>But it's worse than that. When a tech company designs a device for remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades, they <em>invite</em> both external and internal parties to demand those downgrades. Like Pavel Chekov says, a phaser on the bridge in Act I is going to go off by Act III. Selling a product that can be remotely, irreversibly, nonconsensually downgraded <em>inevitably</em> results in  the worst person at the product-planning meeting proposing to do so. The fact that there are no penalties for doing so makes it impossible for the better people in that meeting to win the ensuing argument, leading to the moral injury of seeing a product you care about reduced to a pile of shit:</p>
 <p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/25/moral-injury/#enshittification">https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/25/moral-injury/#enshittification</a></p>
 <p>But even if everyone at that table is a swell egg who wouldn't dream of enshittifying the product, the existence of a remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrade feature makes the product vulnerable to <em>external</em> actors who will demand that it be used. Back in 2022, Adobe informed its customers that it had lost its deal to include Pantone colors in Photoshop, Illustrator and other "software as a service" packages. As a result, users would now have to start paying a monthly fee to see their own, completed images. Fail to pay the fee and all the Pantone-coded pixels in your artwork would just show up as black:</p>
 <p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/28/fade-to-black/#trust-the-process">https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/28/fade-to-black/#trust-the-process</a></p>
 <p>Adobe blamed this on Pantone, and there was lots of speculation about what had happened. Had Pantone jacked up its price to Adobe, so Adobe passed the price on to its users in the hopes of embarrassing Pantone? Who knows? Who <em>can</em> know? That's the point: you invested in Photoshop, you spent money and time creating images with it, but you have no way to know whether or how you'll be able to access those images in the future. Those terms can change at any time, and if you don't like it, you can go fuck yourself.</p>
 <p>These companies are all run by CEOs who got their MBAs at Darth Vader University, where the first lesson is "I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it further." Adobe <em>chose</em> to design its software so it would be vulnerable to this kind of demand, and then its <em>customers</em> paid for that choice. Sure, Pantone are dicks, but this is <em>Adobe's</em> fault. They stuck a KICK ME sign to your back, and Pantone obliged.</p>
 <p>This keeps happening and it's <em>gonna</em> keep happening. Last week, Playstation owners who'd bought (or "bought") Warner TV shows got messages telling them that Warner had walked away from its deal to sell videos through the Playstation store, and so all the videos they'd paid for were going to be deleted forever. They wouldn't even get refunds (to be clear, refunds would also be bullshit – when I was a bookseller, I didn't get to break into your house and steal the books I'd sold you, not even if I left some cash on your kitchen table).</p>
 <p>Sure, Warner is an unbelievably shitty company run by the single most guillotineable executive in all of Southern California, the loathsome David Zaslav, who oversaw the merger of Warner with Discovery. Zaslav is the creep who figured out that he could make more money <em>cancelling completed movies and TV shows</em> and taking a tax writeoff than he stood to make by releasing them:</p>
 <p><a href="https://aftermath.site/there-is-no-piracy-without-ownership">https://aftermath.site/there-is-no-piracy-without-ownership</a></p>
 <p>Imagine putting years of your life into making a program – showing up on set at 5AM and leaving your kids to get their own breakfast, performing stunts that could maim or kill you, working 16-hour days during the acute phase of the covid pandemic and driving home in the night, only to have this absolute <em>turd</em> of a man <em>delete</em> the program before anyone could see it, forever, to get a minor tax advantage. Talk about moral injury!</p>
 <p>But without Sony's complicity in designing a remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrade feature into the Playstation, Zaslav's war on art and creative workers would be limited to material that hadn't been released yet. Thanks to Sony's awful choices, David Zaslav can break into your house, steal your movies – and he doesn't even have to leave a twenty on your kitchen table.</p>
 <p>The point here – the point I made 20 years ago to Chris Anderson – is that <em>this is the foreseeable, inevitable result</em> of designing devices for remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades. Anyone who was paying attention should have figured that out in the GW Bush administration. Anyone who does this <em>today</em>? Absolute flaming garbage.</p>
 <p>Sure, Zaslav deserves to be staked out over and anthill and slathered in high-fructose corn syrup. But save the next anthill for the Sony exec who shipped a product that would let Zaslav come into your home and rob you. That piece of shit <em>knew what they were doing</em> and <em>they did it anyway</em>. <em>Fuck</em> them. Sideways. With a <em>brick</em>.</p>
 <p>Meanwhile, the studios keep making the case for stealing movies rather than paying for them. As Tyler James Hill wrote: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing":</p>
 <p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/tylerjameshill.bsky.social/post/3kflw2lvam42n">https://bsky.app/profile/tylerjameshill.bsky.social/post/3kflw2lvam42n</a></p>
 <p>(<i>Image: <a href="https://pxhere.com/en/photo/218986">Alan Levine</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY 2.0</a> modified</i>)</p>
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 <p>#20yrsago Beat Me Daddy (Eight to the Bar) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040112231612/http://www.forteanbureau.com/dec2003/Doctorow/index.html">https://web.archive.org/web/20040112231612/http://www.forteanbureau.com/dec2003/Doctorow/index.html</a></p>
 <p>#15yrsago New Rochelle school board mutilates books to protect children <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081210080026/http://www.newrochelletalk.com/?q=node/288">https://web.archive.org/web/20081210080026/http://www.newrochelletalk.com/?q=node/288</a></p>
 <p>#15yrsago  How to Pay for National Health Insurance <a href="https://ritholtz.com/2008/12/how-to-pay-for-national-health-insurance/">https://ritholtz.com/2008/12/how-to-pay-for-national-health-insurance/</a></p>
 <p>#5yrsago Literal breadboarding, with toast and Vegemite <a href="https://twitter.com/lukeweston/status/1071220362606608385">https://twitter.com/lukeweston/status/1071220362606608385</a></p>
 <p>#5yrsago $30 plug-and-play kit converts a Bird scooter into a “personal scooter” <a href="https://hackaday.com/2018/12/07/liberating-birds-for-a-cheap-electric-scooter/">https://hackaday.com/2018/12/07/liberating-birds-for-a-cheap-electric-scooter/</a></p>
 <p>#5yrsago An annual Christmas craft tradition: the Die Hard Air Duct ornament <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171214160218/https://unlikelywords.com/2016/12/23/how-to-make-your-own-die-hard-christmas-tree-ornament/">https://web.archive.org/web/20171214160218/https://unlikelywords.com/2016/12/23/how-to-make-your-own-die-hard-christmas-tree-ornament/</a></p>
 <p>#5yrsago Top FTC official is so such a corporate shill that he has conflicts of interest for 100 companies, including Equifax and Facebook <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/6/18129572/facebook-uber-ftc-conflict-interest-andrew-smith">https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/6/18129572/facebook-uber-ftc-conflict-interest-andrew-smith</a></p>
 <p>#5yrsago Ha-ha, only serious: McSweeney’s on price-gouging in the emergency room <a href="https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/welcome-to-our-modern-hospital-where-if-you-want-to-know-a-price-you-can-go-fuck-yourself">https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/welcome-to-our-modern-hospital-where-if-you-want-to-know-a-price-you-can-go-fuck-yourself</a></p>
 <p>#1yrago One weird trick to make monopolies self-destruct <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/08/one-last-job/#icahns-raiders">https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/08/one-last-job/#icahns-raiders</a></p>
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 <h1>"If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing" (<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/08/playstationed/#tyler-james-hill">permalink</a>)</h1>
 <p>20 years ago, I got in a (friendly) public spat with Chris Anderson, who was then the editor in chief of <em>Wired</em>. I'd publicly noted my disappointment with glowing <em>Wired</em> reviews of DRM-encumbered digital devices, prompting Anderson to call me unrealistic for expecting the magazine to condemn gadgets for their DRM:</p>
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 <p>I replied in public, telling him that he'd misunderstood. This wasn't an issue of ideological purity – it was about good reviewing practice. <em>Wired</em> was telling readers to buy a product because it had features x, y and z, but at any time in the future, without warning, without recourse, the vendor could switch off any of those features:</p>
 <p><a href="https://memex.craphound.com/2004/12/29/cory-responds-to-wired-editor-on-drm/">https://memex.craphound.com/2004/12/29/cory-responds-to-wired-editor-on-drm/</a></p>
 <p>I proposed that all <em>Wired</em> endorsements for DRM-encumbered products should come with this disclaimer:</p>
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  WARNING: THIS DEVICE’S FEATURES ARE SUBJECT TO REVOCATION WITHOUT NOTICE, ACCORDING TO TERMS SET OUT IN SECRET NEGOTIATIONS. YOUR INVESTMENT IS CONTINGENT ON THE GOODWILL OF THE WORLD’S MOST PARANOID, TECHNOPHOBIC ENTERTAINMENT EXECS. THIS DEVICE AND DEVICES LIKE IT ARE TYPICALLY USED TO CHARGE YOU FOR THINGS YOU USED TO GET FOR FREE — BE SURE TO FACTOR IN THE PRICE OF BUYING ALL YOUR MEDIA OVER AND OVER AGAIN. AT NO TIME IN HISTORY HAS ANY ENTERTAINMENT COMPANY GOTTEN A SWEET DEAL LIKE THIS FROM THE ELECTRONICS PEOPLE, BUT THIS TIME THEY’RE GETTING A TOTAL WALK. HERE, PUT THIS IN YOUR MOUTH, IT’LL MUFFLE YOUR WHIMPERS.
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 <p><em>Wired</em> didn't take me up on this suggestion.</p>
 <p>But I was right. The ability to change features, prices, and availability of things you've <em>already paid for</em> is a powerful temptation to corporations. Inkjet printers were always a sleazy business, but once these printers got directly connected to the internet, companies like HP started pushing out "security updates" that modified your printer to make it reject the third-party ink you'd paid for:</p>
 <p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/ink-stained-wretches-battle-soul-digital-freedom-taking-place-inside-your-printer">https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/ink-stained-wretches-battle-soul-digital-freedom-taking-place-inside-your-printer</a></p>
 <p>Now, this scam wouldn't work if you could just put things back the way they were before the "update," which is where the DRM comes in. A thicket of IP laws make reverse-engineering DRM-encumbered products into a <em>felony</em>. Combine always-on network access with indiscriminate criminalization of user modification, and the enshittification will follow, as surely as night follows day.</p>
 <p>This is the root of all the right to repair shenanigans. Sure, companies withhold access to diagnostic codes and parts, but codes can be extracted and parts can be cloned. The real teeth in blocking repair comes from the law, not the tech. The company that makes McDonald's wildly unreliable McFlurry machines makes a fortune charging franchisees to fix these eternally broken appliances. When a third party threatened this racket by reverse-engineering the DRM that blocked independent repair, they got buried in legal threats:</p>
 <p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/20/euthanize-rentier-enablers/#cold-war">https://pluralistic.net/2021/04/20/euthanize-rentier-enablers/#cold-war</a></p>
 <p>Everybody loves this racket. In Poland, a team of security researchers at the OhMyHack conference just presented their teardown of the anti-repair features in NEWAG Impuls <em>locomotives</em>. NEWAG boobytrapped their trains to try and detect if they've been independently serviced, and to respond to any unauthorized repairs by bricking themselves:</p>
 <p><a href="https://mamot.fr/@q3k@hackerspace.pl/111528162905209453">https://mamot.fr/@q3k@hackerspace.pl/111528162905209453</a></p>
 <p>Poland is part of the EU, meaning that they are required to uphold the provisions of the 2001 EU Copyright Directive, including Article 6, which bans this kind of reverse-engineering. The researchers are planning to present their work again at the Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg this month – Germany is also a party to the EUCD. The threat to researchers from presenting this work is real – but so is the threat to conferences that host them:</p>
 <p><a href="https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/researchers-face-legal-threats-over-sdmi-hack/">https://www.cnet.com/tech/services-and-software/researchers-face-legal-threats-over-sdmi-hack/</a></p>
 <p>20 years ago, Chris Anderson told me that it was unrealistic to expect tech companies to refuse demands for DRM from the entertainment companies whose media they hoped to play. My argument – then and now – was that any tech company that sells you a gadget that can have its features revoked is defrauding you. You're paying for x, y and z – and if they are contractually required to remove x and y on demand, they are selling you something that you can't rely on, without making that clear to you.</p>
 <p>But it's worse than that. When a tech company designs a device for remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades, they <em>invite</em> both external and internal parties to demand those downgrades. Like Pavel Chekov says, a phaser on the bridge in Act I is going to go off by Act III. Selling a product that can be remotely, irreversibly, nonconsensually downgraded <em>inevitably</em> results in  the worst person at the product-planning meeting proposing to do so. The fact that there are no penalties for doing so makes it impossible for the better people in that meeting to win the ensuing argument, leading to the moral injury of seeing a product you care about reduced to a pile of shit:</p>
 <p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/25/moral-injury/#enshittification">https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/25/moral-injury/#enshittification</a></p>
 <p>But even if everyone at that table is a swell egg who wouldn't dream of enshittifying the product, the existence of a remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrade feature makes the product vulnerable to <em>external</em> actors who will demand that it be used. Back in 2022, Adobe informed its customers that it had lost its deal to include Pantone colors in Photoshop, Illustrator and other "software as a service" packages. As a result, users would now have to start paying a monthly fee to see their own, completed images. Fail to pay the fee and all the Pantone-coded pixels in your artwork would just show up as black:</p>
 <p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/28/fade-to-black/#trust-the-process">https://pluralistic.net/2022/10/28/fade-to-black/#trust-the-process</a></p>
 <p>Adobe blamed this on Pantone, and there was lots of speculation about what had happened. Had Pantone jacked up its price to Adobe, so Adobe passed the price on to its users in the hopes of embarrassing Pantone? Who knows? Who <em>can</em> know? That's the point: you invested in Photoshop, you spent money and time creating images with it, but you have no way to know whether or how you'll be able to access those images in the future. Those terms can change at any time, and if you don't like it, you can go fuck yourself.</p>
 <p>These companies are all run by CEOs who got their MBAs at Darth Vader University, where the first lesson is "I have altered the deal, pray I don't alter it further." Adobe <em>chose</em> to design its software so it would be vulnerable to this kind of demand, and then its <em>customers</em> paid for that choice. Sure, Pantone are dicks, but this is <em>Adobe's</em> fault. They stuck a KICK ME sign to your back, and Pantone obliged.</p>
 <p>This keeps happening and it's <em>gonna</em> keep happening. Last week, Playstation owners who'd bought (or "bought") Warner TV shows got messages telling them that Warner had walked away from its deal to sell videos through the Playstation store, and so all the videos they'd paid for were going to be deleted forever. They wouldn't even get refunds (to be clear, refunds would also be bullshit – when I was a bookseller, I didn't get to break into your house and steal the books I'd sold you, not even if I left some cash on your kitchen table).</p>
 <p>Sure, Warner is an unbelievably shitty company run by the single most guillotineable executive in all of Southern California, the loathsome David Zaslav, who oversaw the merger of Warner with Discovery. Zaslav is the creep who figured out that he could make more money <em>cancelling completed movies and TV shows</em> and taking a tax writeoff than he stood to make by releasing them:</p>
 <p><a href="https://aftermath.site/there-is-no-piracy-without-ownership">https://aftermath.site/there-is-no-piracy-without-ownership</a></p>
 <p>Imagine putting years of your life into making a program – showing up on set at 5AM and leaving your kids to get their own breakfast, performing stunts that could maim or kill you, working 16-hour days during the acute phase of the covid pandemic and driving home in the night, only to have this absolute <em>turd</em> of a man <em>delete</em> the program before anyone could see it, forever, to get a minor tax advantage. Talk about moral injury!</p>
 <p>But without Sony's complicity in designing a remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrade feature into the Playstation, Zaslav's war on art and creative workers would be limited to material that hadn't been released yet. Thanks to Sony's awful choices, David Zaslav can break into your house, steal your movies – and he doesn't even have to leave a twenty on your kitchen table.</p>
 <p>The point here – the point I made 20 years ago to Chris Anderson – is that <em>this is the foreseeable, inevitable result</em> of designing devices for remote, irreversible, nonconsensual downgrades. Anyone who was paying attention should have figured that out in the GW Bush administration. Anyone who does this <em>today</em>? Absolute flaming garbage.</p>
 <p>Sure, Zaslav deserves to be staked out over and anthill and slathered in high-fructose corn syrup. But save the next anthill for the Sony exec who shipped a product that would let Zaslav come into your home and rob you. That piece of shit <em>knew what they were doing</em> and <em>they did it anyway</em>. <em>Fuck</em> them. Sideways. With a <em>brick</em>.</p>
 <p>Meanwhile, the studios keep making the case for stealing movies rather than paying for them. As Tyler James Hill wrote: "If buying isn't owning, piracy isn't stealing":</p>
 <p><a href="https://bsky.app/profile/tylerjameshill.bsky.social/post/3kflw2lvam42n">https://bsky.app/profile/tylerjameshill.bsky.social/post/3kflw2lvam42n</a></p>
 <p>(<i>Image: <a href="https://pxhere.com/en/photo/218986">Alan Levine</a>, <a href="https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/">CC BY 2.0</a> modified</i>)</p>
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 <p>#20yrsago Beat Me Daddy (Eight to the Bar) <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20040112231612/http://www.forteanbureau.com/dec2003/Doctorow/index.html">https://web.archive.org/web/20040112231612/http://www.forteanbureau.com/dec2003/Doctorow/index.html</a></p>
 <p>#15yrsago New Rochelle school board mutilates books to protect children <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20081210080026/http://www.newrochelletalk.com/?q=node/288">https://web.archive.org/web/20081210080026/http://www.newrochelletalk.com/?q=node/288</a></p>
 <p>#15yrsago  How to Pay for National Health Insurance <a href="https://ritholtz.com/2008/12/how-to-pay-for-national-health-insurance/">https://ritholtz.com/2008/12/how-to-pay-for-national-health-insurance/</a></p>
 <p>#5yrsago Literal breadboarding, with toast and Vegemite <a href="https://twitter.com/lukeweston/status/1071220362606608385">https://twitter.com/lukeweston/status/1071220362606608385</a></p>
 <p>#5yrsago $30 plug-and-play kit converts a Bird scooter into a “personal scooter” <a href="https://hackaday.com/2018/12/07/liberating-birds-for-a-cheap-electric-scooter/">https://hackaday.com/2018/12/07/liberating-birds-for-a-cheap-electric-scooter/</a></p>
 <p>#5yrsago An annual Christmas craft tradition: the Die Hard Air Duct ornament <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20171214160218/https://unlikelywords.com/2016/12/23/how-to-make-your-own-die-hard-christmas-tree-ornament/">https://web.archive.org/web/20171214160218/https://unlikelywords.com/2016/12/23/how-to-make-your-own-die-hard-christmas-tree-ornament/</a></p>
 <p>#5yrsago Top FTC official is so such a corporate shill that he has conflicts of interest for 100 companies, including Equifax and Facebook <a href="https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/6/18129572/facebook-uber-ftc-conflict-interest-andrew-smith">https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/6/18129572/facebook-uber-ftc-conflict-interest-andrew-smith</a></p>
 <p>#5yrsago Ha-ha, only serious: McSweeney’s on price-gouging in the emergency room <a href="https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/welcome-to-our-modern-hospital-where-if-you-want-to-know-a-price-you-can-go-fuck-yourself">https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/welcome-to-our-modern-hospital-where-if-you-want-to-know-a-price-you-can-go-fuck-yourself</a></p>
 <p>#1yrago One weird trick to make monopolies self-destruct <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/08/one-last-job/#icahns-raiders">https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/08/one-last-job/#icahns-raiders</a></p>
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