The Digital Millennium Copyright Act makes it a crime to remove the encryption from software. That means you can't customize or repair your applications or devices if they are encrypted. Consumer electronics manufacturers abuse this dumb law by encrypting invasive spyware. — Read the rest

The post A dumb copyright law makes it illegal to remove the spyware from your own TV appeared first on Boing Boing.

The flood of AI-generated slop games has set the thoroughly-troubled gaming industry reeling, but for indies it's even worse: success can depend on building a social media following by showing off clever and innovative gameplay concepts early in development. And that's just the sort of thing sleazy copycats can use frontier models to slop up and sell. — Read the rest

The post Anthropic clamps down on using Claude to make copycat games—or reverse-engineer code appeared first on Boing Boing.