Activities/ExamplesOfRestrictions

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They don’t want you to have fair or competitive pricing of #ebooks: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/aug/30/us-ebook-customers-compensation-price-fixing #AntiCompetitive #monopoly #HarperCollins #Hachette

They don’t want you get online by #tethering your phone to your PC, so they bribed developers, then the government: http://money.cnn.com/2012/07/31/technology/verizon-tethering-apps/index.htm

They don't want you to take pictures in the "wrong" places: http://boingboing.net/2012/08/30/apple-granted-patent-for-locat.html #apple #patents #censorship

They don't want you to read about your genitals: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/sep/13/naomi-wolf-vagina-apple-itunes-censors #bodyimage #censorship #DumbingDown

They don't want you to know that the software in your TV lets crackers watch you while you're busy watching it http://mashable.com/2013/08/02/samsung-smart-tv-hack/

They don't want you to find out how many people #USArmy #drones are killing: http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2012/aug/30/apple-blocks-us-drone-strike-app #censorship #pakistan #yemen

They don't want you to have #ebooks in foreign languages, they'd rather delete your entire library: http://boingboing.net/2012/10/22/kindle-user-claims-amazon-dele.html

They don't want you to have access to tablet apps and games that aren't for children: http://thenextweb.com/microsoft/2012/10/11/the-closing-of-windows-windows-8-prohibits-explicit-apps-from-the-windows-store/ #Windows8 #Surface #censorship

They don't want you to know that they steal your #Twitter photos and sell them as their own: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/11/twitpic-copyright_n_860554.html #Twitpic #Privacy

They don't want you to know that #election voting machines work insecurely, and in secret: http://www.geek.com/games/pac-man-installed-on-voting-machine-without-breaking-tamper-seals-1279052/ #hack #democracy

They don't want you to know that your address and telehpone number is on sale for $0.000004 http://www.forbes.com/sites/andygreenberg/2012/10/25/facebook-investigating-how-bulgarian-man-bought-1-1-million-users-email-addresses-for-five-dollars/ #facebook

They don't want you to own your schoolwork; they intend to sell your essays instead http://boingboing.net/2013/02/03/school-system-seeks-copyright.html #maryland #copyright #LessonPlans

Partly solved. The proposition has been put on hold: http://hackeducation.com/2015/01/14/openness-and-ownership/

They don't want you to be able to play your rented internet movies on a monitor or projector http://arstechnica.com/apple/2008/11/apple-brings-hdcp-to-a-new-aluminum-macbook-near-you/ #hdcp #drm #apple

They don't want you to have the same rights to #PublicDomain books that they do http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.co.uk/2011/06/british-library-encloses-public-domain.html @britishlibrary #publiclibraries

They don't want you to choose where you buy your #Android apps, so they ban rival stores http://www.forbes.com/sites/adriankingsleyhughes/2012/09/08/something-everyone-should-know-before-pre-ordering-a-kindle-fire-hd/ #KindleFire

They don't want you to know that eavesdropping on cell-phones is easy and routine http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/01/us/police-tracking-of-cellphones-raises-privacy-fears.html #GSM

They don't want you to know they'll remotely disable your electric car if you don't pay fast enough http://www.plugincars.com/leasing-battery-ev-may-become-norm-europe-120223.html #ComputerSaysNo

They Don't Want You to keep your viewing habits private http://doctorbeet.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/lg-smart-tvs-logging-usb-filenames-and.html #lg #privacy Update: a firmware update was released, since then LG's smart TVs stopped sending plain text data about viewing habits. They are now sending encrypted data (supposedly of the same kind of content) http://doctorbeet.blogspot.co.uk/2013/11/lg-smart-tvs-logging-usb-filenames-and.html (last comments)

They don't want you to use controversial words in your SMS messages http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/07/16/the-apple-kill-list-what-your-iphone-doesn-t-want-you-to-type.html #Apple

They don't want you to be allowed to download apps that reveal their human rights abuses http://www.wired.com/2011/09/phone-story #apple #slavery #foxconn

Won battles

They don't want you to use a different cellphone network, so they locked your phone and made switching illegal http://www.cnet.com/news/unauthorized-unlocking-of-smartphones-becomes-illegal-saturday/ #DMCA

A new bill allows unlocking of cellphones http://www.cbsnews.com/news/obama-signs-bill-unlocking-cellphones/

They don't want you to know they've built back door access into your smartphone: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/samsung/9565395/Hidden-web-code-means-hackers-can-wipe-Samsung-Galaxy-S3.html #samsung #dataloss #vulnerability

A firmware update fixing the bug was released: http://gadgets.ndtv.com/mobiles/news/patch-for-samsung-galaxy-s-iii-remote-wipe-hack-already-available-272403

They don't want you to turn off advertising, so they force you to look at products when your #eBook is idle http://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-confirms-all-new-kindle-fires-stuck-with-ads/ #kindle

Kind-of-solved. It is possible to opt-out of the forced advertising by paying a $15 fee: http://www.cnet.com/news/amazon-backtracks-will-offer-15-opt-out-for-ads-on-kindle-fire-tablets/

They don't want you to read comics with gay references http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/apr/10/apple-bans-gay-sex-images-comic #saga #comic #apple #censorship

Solved. The publisher of the comic (not Apple) interpreted the Apple store regulation too strictly. After clarification on the Apple Store policies the comic has been published: http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/apr/10/comic-app-comixology-apple-saga

They don't want you to be allowed to sell music, books, or apps second-hand: http://www.psmag.com/nature-and-technology/first-sale-doctrine-drm-copyright-kirtsaeng-51071 #Kirtsaeng #FirstSale

Mostly solved. The case mentioned in the articles has been decided by the US Supreme Court, stating that the first sale doctrine applies to books published abroad: http://www.scotusblog.com/case-files/cases/kirtsaeng-v-john-wiley-sons-inc/ . In Europe the EUCJ already clarified that the first sale doctrine applies to digital media distributed with a license for an unlimited time: http://www.linklaters.com/Insights/Publication1403Newsletter/TMT-News-November-2012/Pages/EU-Used-Soft-Oracle-ECJ-approves-sale-used-software.aspx http://curia.europa.eu/juris/document/document.jsf?docid=124564&doclang=EN The issue is still open for media that have time-limited licences. The issue is almost clear on the legal point of view even if it is still very hard to do it in practice.

They don't want you to listen to uncensored music: #Apple automatically replaces words and phrases of #iTunes songs: http://www.computerworld.com/article/2472251/cloud-computing/bad-apple--itunes-match-censors-your-music-collection--why-.html)--

More-or-less fixed. iTunes Match can't tell apart a ripped censored song from its uncensored version, but manually entering the appropriate metadata fixes the problem: http://www.popularmechanics.com/technology/audio/a11401/how-to-stop-itunes-match-from-giving-you-the-bleeped-versions-of-songs-17320278/

--(They don't want you to keep apps from rival companies installed on your phone http://www.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/technology/apple-ios-6-leaves-out-googles-maps.html?_r=1 #Apple #AntiCompetitive #monopoly

Fixed. The app is now available again: http://www.wired.com/2012/12/google-maps-apple-ios-iphone-ipad/ This doesn't mean it won't happen again.

Activities/ExamplesOfRestrictions (last edited 2017-04-01 14:48:11 by sabet)