Today is D-D-Day
p2pnet.net News:- Today is D-D-Day – Defeating DRM Day – and Defective By Design is suggesting anyone who wants to see an end to Big Business DRM Consumer Control has 10 things they can do to help make that happen.
Email your friends and family, use our prepared text. This is the big one – attack that address book!!
Add this text to your email signature for the day.
Post on a forum or message board that you subscribe to.
Download and print this sign and hang one at your desk, the office water cooler, or in an elevator.
Download and print this leaflet and give it to coworkers or others you see today, maybe even distribute them on your lunch hour or during your commute.
Sign the Bono petition. We are getting ready to get his answer.
Google bomb DRM by adding this link to your website or any web page you can edit.
Digg the day of action
Watch these videos on YouTube send them to friends and rate them.
Photograph your actions and post them to Flickr tagged with “dayagainst drm defectivebydesign”.
And here’s what the prepared text says:
Important Consumer Warning About DRM
Subject line: Read this consumer warning
Please read this consumer warning. This stuff really exists and you should know about it. Please also pass this onto anyone else who may not be aware of what DRM is.
Warning DRM! Digital Restrictions Management
This holiday season when you bring home a new electronic device, will you be bringing an intruder into your home? Will you and your family members end up being monitored and reported on by the software installed on these devices?
DRM is used to restrict what you and your family can do with the electronic devices and media purchased. It is an attempt by technology and media companies to take away your rights. DRM Means: No fair use. No purchase and resell. No private copies. No sharing. No backup. No swapping. No mix tapes. No privacy. No commons. No control over our computers. No control over our electronic devices.
DRM software and hardware monitors and controls your family’s behavior.
Did you know that iPod users are restricted from transferring their music to other non-Apple devices because the music downloaded from iTunes is encrypted – locked with DRM? Apple allows you to write an audio CD, but will leave you with very lousy sound quality if you ever want to take your music to a new portable device in a compressed format.
Did you know that Sony Music was caught secretly planting DRM rootkits on customers computers. All it required was for you to play the CD you had purchased from them…
DRM is more than a nuisance. The film and music industry are setting the agenda to increase their control. They have demanded that technology companies impose DRM to deliver for them what their political lobbying to change copyright law never has: they aim to turn every interaction with a published work into a transaction, abolishing fair use and the commons, and making copyright last forever. By accepting DRM users unwittingly surrender their rights and invite a deeper surveillance. This will put your family’s viewing, listening, reading, browsing records on file with them.
What gives them that right?
Stay away from DRM-dependent products like Blu-ray and HD-DVD, iTunes, Windows Media Player, Zune, Amazon Unbox…
Stay away from retailers who insist on making DRM part of the package.
Stop financing the people who want to restrict you.
Find out more at www.DefectiveByDesign.org and find 10 easy ways you can help make others aware.
Thanks for reading.
And if you’re in Canada, there are, of course, 30 other ways of making your feelings felt, as per Michael Geist’s 30 Days of DRM: 30 Things You Can Do.
Meanwhile, obviously, although October 3 has been declared DRM day, you don’t have to confine yourself to that. Make every day a DD-Day.
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October 3rd, 2006 at 3:43 pm
DRM on top of copyright duration is totally senseless.
Just imagine:
1. You cannot copy your favorite software for security purposes because it is DRMd. Then when the right to copy freely arrives, after copyright expires in about 100 years, the right to copy is totally useless, but then, still the author of “History of Early 21st. Century Programming” cannot copy the program even for academic research purposes because it is DRMd.
2. You, a music teacher, buy the best recording made of a public domain work, your favorite. It is DRMd. So there you have it, a public domain work that is not in the public domain for you to copy for your music students.
I wonder, what were legislators that approved these nonsense rules thinking?
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com
October 3rd, 2006 at 6:38 pm
… all they do is imagine their pockets being filled by the content cartels with $$$.
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