It goes unpunished because it’s not illegal.

If you have evidence otherwise, feel free to share.

I didn’t say “unpunished or hard to enforce”.

I don’t see anything regarding encryption

Hurting /= killing

I didn’t say anything about “killing”.

It’s always been legal to download, but not upload.

…why would they? Self-hosting loses them business.

Yes and no. It’s super rudimentary. Android-only auto-backup through the app. It puts them into their own partition. You can’t manually upload anything.

when the company eventually folds or changes their policy for the worst, it’s a nightmare to get your photos and videos to another platform.

That’s why “portability” is important. Ente matches this bar for me.

But yeah, when it comes to one-off products like this you need 1 subscriptions for photos, one subscription for files, one subscription for docs, etc. Honestly that’s the reason I use Proton.

I’ve already deleted my pronouns and bios showing support for Ukraine, Palestine, and showing hate towards N*zis, I’m now wondering if I should delete my accounts altogether.

Totally get why you’re doing that but you’re also giving them exactly what they want.

We’re not talking about takedown requests, we’re talking about bypassing DRM.

It’s not a “take”, it is a fact.

Stop commenting unless you have evidence to the contrary.

This shouldn’t really be necessary, as Signal uses the contact info in your contacts by default.

It really was. Do you not know what the DMCA is? It’s US law.

That’s great. This conversation was about the US.

We were talking about laws, not rights or views.

Didn’t realize the DMCA applied in Sweden.

If another law says you have a right to create

That law doesn’t exist and that’s not how law works. Law does not specify what is allowed, only what isn’t. Breaking encryption isn’t.

There is no “more illegal”. One is illegal, the other is not.

The DMCA makes it pretty clear that “Circumvention of Technological Protection Measures” is illegal. There are no exceptions for whether you own or redistribute the content in question.