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<div class="center" style="font-size:60%; letter-spacing:0.1em;">Lose your faith in the legal system.</div>

The legal system will probably not save us. In fact, it has been '''protecting''' the big tech oligopoly all along.

Examples include the [[DMCA Section 1201]] outlawing the removal of digital restrictions malware (DRM) and making some kinds of repair a legal mine field, and patent laws making it a legal mine field for anyone to create products competing with the oligopoly, if they even get that far.<ref>[https://www.defectivebydesign.org/faq#circumvent DRM Frequently Asked Questions | Defective by Design]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20251023035930/https://www.tastyfish.cz/lrs/patent.html Patent - LRS Wiki]</ref> Also, remember what treatment the hero who leaked the iPhone 4 prototype to the public back in 2010 has received?<ref>Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLQkoZX9Mog Real Thoughts on Tech Leaks!] - Marques Brownlee</ref> Now they are increasing surveillance with mandatory age verification in operating systems.<ref>Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adCMNAVBGSQ&t=464 OS Age Verification: Millions Of Predators With GPS In Your Kid's Pocket, Required By Law!] - Jody Bruchon</ref><ref>[https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2026/03/msg00000.html On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states] - lists.debian.org</ref>

As you can see, the nepotist legal system has a history of overwhelmingly siding with the '''big corporations against the users''', not the other way round. It has been '''actively''' (and passively through inaction and inertia) '''supporting''' the big corporations in taking away nice things. And now we are begging to the very same legal system to come and save ''us''?

What do I mean by "inertia"? We have to fight battles to get governors to notice us and gracefully give us back tiny bits of repairability and freedom, all while technofascists in skyscrapers only had to snap their fingers and DRM was law.

We have been waiting since over 20 years for the law against non-replaceable batteries.<ref>Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuTcavAzopg iPod's Dirty Secret - from 2003] - Casey Neistat</ref> In a system that sided with consumers, this shouldn't have taken until the next sunrise, let alone 20 years. Did the technofascist RIAA have to wait 20 years to realize its wet dream of DMCA, a stupid law that bankrupted entire families because someone harmlessly copied a dozen music tracks?<ref>Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUm6no5MXYA The People Who Were Sued for Downloading Music... What Ever Happened?] - Bandsplaining</ref> Even if you believe this should not go unpunished, it is safe to say that these punishments are wildly disproportionate.

It probably won't be long until the Linux Foundation (headquartered in California) will be forced to implement backdoors like Microsoft, and technocrats in skyscrapers will, without further ado, make a law against removing those backdoors - the very same thing they did with DRM.<ref>[https://digdeeper.club/articles/technological_slavery.xhtml Technological slavery] - Dig Deeper</ref> Yes, they can.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20251024131239/https://www.tastyfish.cz/lrs/yes_they_can.html Yes They Can] - Miloslav Číž</ref> If ''you'' can think of it, so can ''they''.

We have to - in one way or the other - take matters into our own hands.

As for how we are going to accomplish this, I unfortunately don't have the answers. But what I ''do'' know is that hoping for some legal miracle to give us back our freedoms and ownership over what we paid for - is not it.

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+<div class="center" style="font-size:200%; letter-spacing: 0.1em; color:#777;">They will not save us.</div>
+<div class="center" style="font-size:60%; letter-spacing:0.1em;">Lose your faith in the legal system.</div>
+The legal system will probably not save us. In fact, it has been '''protecting''' the big tech oligopoly all along.
+Examples include the [[DMCA Section 1201]] outlawing the removal of digital restrictions malware (DRM) and making some kinds of repair a legal mine field, and patent laws making it a legal mine field for anyone to create products competing with the oligopoly, if they even get that far.<ref>[https://www.defectivebydesign.org/faq#circumvent DRM Frequently Asked Questions &#x7C; Defective by Design]</ref><ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20251023035930/https://www.tastyfish.cz/lrs/patent.html Patent - LRS Wiki]</ref> Also, remember what treatment the hero who leaked the iPhone 4 prototype to the public back in 2010 has received?<ref>Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TLQkoZX9Mog Real Thoughts on Tech Leaks!] - Marques Brownlee</ref> Now they are increasing surveillance with mandatory age verification in operating systems.<ref>Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adCMNAVBGSQ&t=464 OS Age Verification: Millions Of Predators With GPS In Your Kid's Pocket, Required By Law!] - Jody Bruchon</ref><ref>[https://lists.debian.org/debian-legal/2026/03/msg00000.html On the unfortunate need for an "age verification" API for legal compliance reasons in some U.S. states] - lists.debian.org</ref>
+As you can see, the nepotist legal system has a history of overwhelmingly siding with the '''big corporations against the users''', not the other way round. It has been '''actively''' (and passively through inaction and inertia) '''supporting'''  the big corporations in taking away nice things. And now we are begging to the very same legal system to come and save ''us''?
+What do I mean by "inertia"? We have to fight battles to get governors to notice us and gracefully give us back tiny bits of repairability and freedom, all while technofascists in skyscrapers only had to snap their fingers and DRM was law.
+We have been waiting since over 20 years for the law against non-replaceable batteries.<ref>Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuTcavAzopg iPod's Dirty Secret - from 2003] - Casey Neistat</ref> In a system that sided with consumers, this shouldn't have taken until the next sunrise, let alone 20 years. Did the technofascist RIAA have to wait 20 years to realize its wet dream of DMCA, a stupid law that bankrupted entire families because someone harmlessly copied a dozen music tracks?<ref>Video: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUm6no5MXYA The People Who Were Sued for Downloading Music... What Ever Happened?] - Bandsplaining</ref> Even if you believe this should not go unpunished, it is safe to say that these punishments are wildly disproportionate.
+It probably won't be long until the Linux Foundation (headquartered in California) will be forced to implement backdoors like Microsoft, and technocrats in skyscrapers will, without further ado, make a law against removing those backdoors - the very same thing they did with DRM.<ref>[https://digdeeper.club/articles/technological_slavery.xhtml Technological slavery] - Dig Deeper</ref> Yes, they can.<ref>[https://web.archive.org/web/20251024131239/https://www.tastyfish.cz/lrs/yes_they_can.html Yes They Can] - Miloslav Číž</ref> If ''you'' can think of it, so can ''they''.
+We have to - in one way or the other - take matters into our own hands.
+As for how we are going to accomplish this, I unfortunately don't have the answers. But what I ''do'' know is that hoping for some legal miracle to give us back our freedoms and ownership over what we paid for - is not it.
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+<div class="center" style="font-size:200%; letter-spacing: 0.1em; color:#777;">Footnotes</div>
+<references />
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+<div class="center" style="font-size:60%; margin:1em;">I hereby release this text into the public domain under [https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ CC0 1.0].</div>
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