Criticism of streaming platforms in mainstream press
Richard Stallman's Personal Page [Unofficial]
March 26, 2026
In the mainstream press, even criticism of streaming platforms takes
for granted that they are entitled to the power to control what you can do with a recording, and thus reinforces that assumption. Here's an example.
Once you recognize that that power is based on Digital
Restrictions Management, which means using nonfree software to control what users can and can't do, you can resist that implicit argument in favor of subjugating you.
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