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Date: 2019-12-18 03:06 pm (UTC)I make it a point to buy my music on Amazon and try to buy it in such a way that I can download MP3s immediately, or I buy it used in Phoenix.
I remember back in the early '80s using hack tools - which you could buy commercially - to break the copy protection on the Apple ][ game Wizardry. It was interesting in that you could make a copy of the original floppy, but not a copy of the copy.
I also still own two t-shirts from the '90s that contain the full source code and decrypt data for DeCSS, the software that broke movie DVDs. It was released for free on the internet, then 2600, the hacker magazine quarterly published it and was sued - after it was available on the internet. I bought the shirts to support the magazine - while I was working for the police department. Never wore them to work, though.