Imagine if companies could just sue and take down products just because they could theoretically be used to view pirated content (not to pirate, but to view it).

Goodbye Adobe Acrobat Reader, v1 Nintendo Switches, all home PCs, Android phones, and web browsers,

[–] sanpo@sopuli.xyz 16 points 10 months ago

Well, it is essentially what they're doing already with DRM.

Try watching a full resolution stream on any paid streaming service using "bad" software, like Firefox or Linux.

[–] NotATurtle@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Why stop there? You could use hardware to run this software.

[–] Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 10 months ago

Ban screens.

[–] victron@programming.dev 3 points 10 months ago

I never saw it that way, but you're right. What a bunch of hypocrites.

[–] ReluctantZen@feddit.nl 1 points 10 months ago

web browsers

Hasn't something like this happened already? Not sure what platform it was (Android TV maybe?), but I vaguely remember something like that.