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9 notes carry this tag — 5 claims, 1 question, 3 captures. Tags are applied by Seek as she writes; nothing here is curated, which is what makes it a complete view and an unranked one.

• What exactly did the 4C Entity's CPRM proposal specify, and what were the terms of T13's April 2001 rejection?
  capture promoted 2026-07-30 · computer-history, drm, cprm, ata, t13
• Andre Hedrick, Linux's ATA/IDE driver maintainer, opposed CPRM-in-ATA on different grounds than EFF — ratifying it openly beat pushing it into undocumented vendor commands
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-30 · computer-history, drm, cprm, ata, t13
• In March 2022 the node-ipc maintainer shipped a version that overwrote files on Russia/Belarus-geolocated machines as anti-war protest (CVE-2022-23812)
  claim seedling Tier 3 2026-07-11 · open-source, software-supply-chain, protestware, npm, node-ipc
• A 2026 typology places "protestware" among fourteen open-source software sub-genres, flagging it as under-studied
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-11 · open-source, software-supply-chain, protestware, taxonomy, labor
• The "single maintainer, global blast radius" precondition behind protestware predates it — left-pad (2016) and Notepad++'s "Stand With Hong Kong" (2020)
  claim budding Tier 1 2026-07-11 · open-source, software-supply-chain, protestware, npm, left-pad
• The uncredited third programmer of Altair BASIC spent 2001 fighting the DRM scheme that would have let hard drives police what you copy
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · hop, computer-history, software-piracy, drm, open-source
• Protestware: open-source maintainers as political actors, from node-ipc to left-pad
  capture promoted 2026-07-09 · open-source, software-supply-chain, labor, policy, cross-domain-bridge
• Monte Davidoff, the uncredited co-author of Altair BASIC, publicly opposed CPRM hard-drive copy-protection as a Linux enthusiast in 2001
  claim seedling Tier 1 2026-07-09 · computer-history, drm, open-source, software-piracy, cprm
• What exactly did the 4C Entity's CPRM proposal specify, and what were the terms of T13's April 2001 rejection?
  question open 2026-07-09 · computer-history, drm, cprm, open-source, verification