Please don't give Amazon money for a shitty android stick. It's rather locked down too and the GUI is ad riddled. A lot of playback bugs that I don't have on a competitor product. There's many better alternatives with less god awful remote controls as well.

Just make sure you're not buying some generic Chinese thing with a compromised linux kernel.

To be frank it's not Amazon's problem.

Its the content publishers problem.

And Amazon isn't enabling this, they're just making an Android device.

The users are putting software onto the device.

This article sets a dangerous precedent. That if Amazon doesn't lock the firestick down like Apple that they're enabling piracy.

Its not Googles nor Microsoft's responsibilities either. They helped, probably solely for money, but they're not obligated to continue to update their DRM.

This article should have framed how DRM repeatedly hasn't worked.

All pirates drink water. What is water doing to stop piracy?

Piracy is morally correct, copying from greedy companies that spy on their customers for shady purposes and take advantage of their position to impose unfair terms. If buying no longer means owning something then pirating cannot be considered theft

If Big Media is losing all this money, why aren't they claiming these losses on their taxes?

Is it because they haven't lost a dime?

Why is it ALWAYS the sports companies? Who cares about somebody illegally watching grown men try to prove they're better than other grown men that much 🙄

Lately Ars Technica seems quite intent on losing any quality they had.

What kind of boot licking, inaccurate, non-news shit is this?

The only potential reason for this article is farming engagement bait clicks from people who don't know shit about fire sticks, and from people like us stunned at the stupidity.

Yes focus on Amazon, the only known way to pirate..

Publishers under the impression that they somehow deserve "billion of dollars" more money than they already get for checks notes being a middleman.

Same way as an HDMI cable enables piracy?

Internet enables most, if not all the piracy.

You gotta pump those numbers up those are rookie numbers

Over twenty years since launch, the DRM solutions provided by Google and Microsoft are in steep decline. A complete overhaul of the technology architecture, licensing, and support model is needed. **Lack of engagement with content owners indicates this a low priority.**  

It's funny that even the techbros don't like them

Well my Fire TV has a Jellyfin app that's letting me watch shows not in streaming services or is impossible to get in my home country due to copyright.

Anyone else know the other apps that help make Amazon the ire of copyright?

common android win [i edited my comment. i wont tell you, user, what i wrote. trololo]

Just leaving this here : https://boingboing.net/2012/01/10/lockdown.html

This is battle they can't win and it just makes everything stupid trying.

Old tech is holding the world together

yeah it's the one good thing amazon does.

Because the content industry is do destitute. They aren’t making billions?

There is a difference.

Say you buy a used PC or android stick and want to use it for piracy, ok, doable, but you'll be doing most of the work. Kodi builds can get you there easily.

but compared to firesticks?

Firesticks have a piracy singularity going on. The entire secondary phase of cracking the OS and installing is intended for piracy. It's an open and shut, easy, one-two punch to get into the ecosystem. All of the hardware is easy to track and maintain. My cousin has a hacked firestick and he can't even open Microsoft Word. You can buy them pre-hacked with no real input or work needed on your part.

At least one thing Amazon does right then!

Yeah, but asking film/tv producers for permission would kill my content collection!

following this argument this article is also enabling piracy by giving people good ideas 💡