@glyph The quintessential example is Zuckerberg writing a tool to migrate people off of MySpace, and onto Facebook, then turning around and using the DCMA to make it illegal for anybody to do the same to Facebook.
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@glyph Did you quote post something?@glyph What did this was the DMCA enabling a predatory "felony contempt of business model" approach to technology from the likes of Meta. Computing technology is inherently democratizing because an individual can program it to do anything. Don't like the way something works? Fix it and release the fix to the masses. The problem is that now companies get to sue people and force them to stop fixing things.