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200 ways to fight DRM this Tuesday

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from Boing Boing -DefectiveByDesign's Peter Brown writes in with "Zuned" a sticker-designed produced for October 3, the International Day Against DRM. "DefectiveByDesign.org is a broad-based anti-DRM campaign that is targeting Big Media, unhelpful manufacturers and DRM distributors. The campaign aims to make all manufacturers wary about bringing their DRM-enabled products to market. DRM products have features built-in that restrict what jobs they can do. These products have been intentionally crippled from the users' perspective, and are therefore "defective by design". This campaign will identify these “defective” products, and target them for elimination. Our aim is the abolition of DRM as a social practice."LINK
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Comments (27)

  1. funkybarb
    funkybarb says Amazing ... thank you for sharing ... I went straight to the site and signed up.
    Permalink posted 10/01/2006
  2. B42
    B42 says Thank boing boing for the link, they're also responsible for getting me here, (for better and worse).
    Permalink posted 10/01/2006
  3. extraordinarypoems
    extraordinarypoems says This sounds extremely provacative, though i'm not sure I fully understand the ramifications of what's happening. I will check out the website, but can you fill me in a little more on what all of this means to little ole me? (or you)?
    Permalink posted 10/01/2006
  4. ROCKNROLLPIMP1
    ROCKNROLLPIMP1 says i guess i am the ememy cause i love my ipod
    Permalink posted 10/01/2006
  5. B42
    B42 says I believe the word is proactive although provacative works as well. from the wiki Digital Rights Management (generally abbreviated to DRM) is any of several technologies used by publishers (or copyright owners) to control access to and usage of digital data (such as software, music, movies) and hardware, handling usage restrictions associated with a specific instance of a digital work. The term often is confused with copy protection and technical protection measures (TPM). These two terms refer to technologies that control or restrict the use and access of digital media content on electronic devices with such technologies installed, acting as components of a DRM design. read more You have to come to your own conclusions, but there are many of us that feel this is an infringement on the freedom of speech, access, and usability of the internet as we know it.
    Permalink posted 10/01/2006
  6. B42
    B42 says RnRP- we can have our music without sacrificing our souls...
    Permalink posted 10/01/2006
  7. ROCKNROLLPIMP1
    ROCKNROLLPIMP1 says I SOLD MY SOUL FOR ROCKNROLL YEARS AGO:)
    Permalink posted 10/01/2006
  8. B42
    B42 says No, No, No, you saved your soul with Rock n' Roll
    Permalink posted 10/01/2006
  9. ROCKNROLLPIMP1
    ROCKNROLLPIMP1 says lol
    Permalink posted 10/01/2006
  10. B42
    B42 says Go straight to Heaven, do not pass Go. :)
    Permalink posted 10/01/2006
  11. MilesTrane
    MilesTrane says i wonder why the only say fucked by Microsoft when Apple and almost all digital stopres utilize DRM. Always amazes me that Apple skates on this and they peeps they are cool and Microsoft alone is evil . . . Apple is a massive corporation and has intentionally chosen not to allow tracks purchased at Itunes Music store to function on non apple devices. DRM also is present on almost all commercial software, DVDs, video games and other digital media
    Permalink posted 10/01/2006
  12. MilesTrane
    MilesTrane says went to the site and they clearly are talking about Apple even more than Microsoft there. there's an image that replicates the typical iPod ad yet shows the cord to the girls earbuds wrapping around her wrist as if in shackles. bottom line this seems to come down to: do you believe the right to control a work resides with the creator of that work or with the consumer?
    Permalink posted 10/01/2006
  13. MilesTrane
    MilesTrane says these threads are so interesting and I always learn a lot. I have a question about something you wrote that above that I hope you can explain further. you wrote as it relates to the use of DRM on media files and within devices: " but there are many of us that feel this is an infringement on the freedom of speech, access, and usability of the internet as we know it." in what way does this (drm) impede my free speech?
    Permalink posted 10/01/2006
  14. B42
    B42 says I personally think the issue is further reaching than that; is the control to be in the hands of the creator of said vehicle format, ie; not creator/artist but mega corporation, or in the hands of the public ie; artists and all. It comes down to the "middle man" again.....(making the lions share of the profits) from EFF "At the behest of the recording industry, most online music stores limit CD burning, copying music to other computers, and which devices can play the music, among other legitimate uses. Want to put your restricted Windows Media Audio songs onto your iPod? No can do. In fact, whenever the greatest new gadgets don't support your music's DRM format, you'll be forced to rebuy your entire collection. Unfortunately, the stores obscure these restrictions, so EFF created a guide that details specifically how your rights are endangered. read more
    Permalink posted 10/01/2006
  15. B42
    B42 says It ties in with the "certified mail" issue, once the computer, your computer is checking on what's what and relaying that info back a lockout could and would occur with certain content, not to say it doesn't already, it does, primarily with music but it's spreading. My wording, once again I have to link to EFF because I feel they are far more qualified, I only understand a little bit of the puzzle -http://www.eff.org/Censorship/
    Permalink posted 10/01/2006
  16. MilesTrane
    MilesTrane says good info. and all respect to fellow moggers opinions. a key point i think - when a recording artist signs a record contract they are willingly assigning specific rights to the record label (each deal is slightly different) and therefore the artist allows that entity to have a level of control over their creation. They do this in order to have a financial and marketing partner that can help them achieve a higher level of success. when you lump in the artist with the public in this instance that doesn't make sense to me. one thing i do know is that the recording industry does not restrict what devices you play your music files on - at least I have never heard of that happening. Apple corporate policy is the only reason a WMA file (restricted or not) will not play on an iPod - they want you to buy an iPod. in fact the record industry would LOVE it if wma files played on iPods. there are so many more digital stores that sell WMAs and their combined market share is about %20 of apple by itself. Their combined share is inhibited greatly because iPods are so popular and again - Apple restricts the type of file that works on iPod . it is not in the music industry's (and that includes those artists who have assigned rights to labels) best interest to restrict these uses and therefore they do not. in our capitalist free market society it is Apple's right to have that restriction. we as consumers have the right to reject their products or any others and go elsewhere.
    Permalink posted 10/01/2006
  17. MilesTrane
    MilesTrane says thanks - i'll read that link
    Permalink posted 10/01/2006
  18. B42
    B42 says Good, I agree, but will reiterate - "You have to come to your own conclusions, but there are many of us that feel this (DRM), is an infringement on the freedom of speech, access, and usability of the internet as we know it."
    Permalink posted 10/01/2006
  19. MilesTrane
    MilesTrane says cheers
    Permalink posted 10/01/2006
  20. B42
    B42 says Thanks Miles, I needed that... :)
    Permalink posted 10/01/2006
  21. david hyman
    david hyman says umm. i wrote a long comment but decided to stay out of it. ; ) -d
    Permalink posted 10/01/2006
  22. B42
    B42 says Thanks for the share David. :)
    Permalink posted 10/02/2006
  23. bobglaza
    bobglaza says I'm bookmarking this discussion - getting into some tall cotton...
    Permalink posted 10/02/2006
  24. MilesTrane
    MilesTrane says i wish david would have posted his thoughts - he and I tend to get into these friendly agree to diagree moments :)
    Permalink posted 10/06/2006
  25. B42
    B42 says I would like to hear more moggers opinions and ideas on it, I just believe there must be alternatives to DRM.
    Permalink posted 10/07/2006
  26. Salmon
    Salmon says I don't understand the point to DRM. Seriously I bought your product. I paid for it. Why can't I do what I want with it? DRM is like buying a CD but then having the record industry tell you where you can play it, how many times you can play it, what you can play it in, ect ect... I really can't understand the need for it? As stated its intention isn't to prevent piracy. If I might not pirating your product then I'm not costing you any money (On this subject the figures reported by the movie and record industries on loses due to piracy are grossly overstated.) then why are you trying to control how I use the product? I can even understand why companies like Apple lock their music to devices such as the iPod. They want to sell music players, that's how the make money. But why should I have to buy the SAME SONG twice if I want to put it on more than a certain number of iPod's or computers? I paid for that exact peice of data already dammit!!! Personally I feel that you shouldn't be able to charge people for data. It's not a physical object. It doesn't actually exist. (Don't get too carried away with this, I feel that programmers and the like should get paid for their time. But not the actual peice of data.) For example and MP3 file is simply a digital representation of a REAL object. I'll pay for the real object, not the phsyically non-existant data of an MP3. But that's a whole other debate. Basically I don't have a problem with piracy control. But I do have a huge problem with buying crippled products. DRM really creates the situation where you don't actually own what you bought, your simply renting it. Who do I blame for all this? America's capatalistic companies and sell out government. Why? Because pretty much everyone follows what the USA does and the USA does whatever the companies want because congress is bought and paid for. How anyone could argue that DRM is good for consumers is beyond me. Eventually it has to come back and bite the big industries in the ass. They have lost site of the fact that the most important people in any buisness are the customers because without them no one gets paid. Screw your customers long enough and you'll loose. If someone can tell me how DRM could possibly be a good thing I'd be glad to consider changing my stance. Salmon
    Permalink posted 10/09/2006
  27. B42
    B42 says Thanks for the comment and the stance Salmon; I agree with the issue of big business being a bunch of greedy bastards, and any glance at the disparity in the earnings through the ranks makes this perfectly clear. The only way I have found to fight this sort of thing is on a one to one level and grassroots participation. The links are all in the original post on the issue of fighting DRM, please do what you can; sign petitions, support EFF, and discuss these things with the people around you. Thanks again.
    Permalink posted 10/09/2006

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