Standards organisations, which make and own copyright to proprietary texts which will be necessary to understand and enforce laws such as the EU's AI Act, which mandate them and refer to them directly, are making it even harder to access standards by instituting pretty nasty Adobe DRM. Many of these document are considered part of EU law for the purposes of preliminary references. See this from the BSI now. #standards #AIAct
@mikarv WTF. Decrypt and upload to archive.org?
@bojkotiMalbona @mikarv ah, so the only winning move is not to play?
@falken @mikarv Not playing is a neutral move. The move you mentioned is a sure loss. If you don’t play, then the oppressor has no 3rd-party-served alternative access to point to in their defense. This is an ideal setup for someone making the winning move, which is to sue the oppressor for restricting access & keeping people who need the info in the dark.
@bojkotiMalbona @mikarv what if the number of players is zero?
@falken @mikarv That move would indeed solve the problem at hand but it would also actually serve to bolster the oppression & enable a poor status quo. If you read this whole thread, you’ll see there are those who believe that if any round-about circumvention to whatever access barrier exists, then it justifies the barrier & the original legit complaint gets disregarded.