Anti-DRM Day triumph
p2pnet.net News:- If anyone working for the corporate music, movie and softare cartels was in any doubt about widespread public disaffection for DRCC (as p2pnet likes to call it) CRAP, their doubts will have been dispelled by October 3’s demonstrations in capital cities around the world.
DRCC is short for Digital Restrictions Consumer Control and CRAP is Richard Stallman’s acronym for Cancellation, Restriction, and Punishment.
Staged by Defective by Design, the demos were typified by the protest in Paris (right) when anti-DRM protesters picketed FNAC, France’s largest music, movies, and books retail store.
There’s also a steadily growing collection of anti-DRM videos.
“As part of the Free Culture video contest, a number of folks have submitted fantastic videos that highlight the problems with DRM,” says DbD. “These videos are a great way to spread the word.”
When we went for a look, the Free Culture site was down, but Russell McOrmond has links to three movies here.
DRM? It’s a total farce.
Anything which can be seen or heard can be copied by a digital or analog means and anyone who tells you differently is talking through his or her anal orifice.
But it’s being promoted as real by the cartels in their desperate quest to make sure you don’t actually own ‘product’ you’ve paid good money for.
Also See:
October 3’s demonstrations – Today is D-D-Day, October 3, 2006
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October 6th, 2006 at 1:10 am
>Anything which can be seen or heard can be copied by a digital or analog means and anyone who tells you differently is talking through his or her anal orifice.
then if there is no problem, why protesting ?
please use true arguments when you are trying to defend a cause , using a dumb one cancels your whole point :/
October 6th, 2006 at 10:28 am
“then if there is no problem, why protesting ?”
But there is a big problem.
While DRM will always be defeated, the law is a source or methoth of criminilizing innocent people. Just like copying and sharing are technically easy to do, this has not stopped RIAA from disrupting and in some cases destroying the life thousands of perfectly innocent people.
Just because there is a way to get out of a country, oppression of the people must be eliminated and protesting is a first step.
DRM opresses culture and will oppress the people, eventually.
Rafael Venegas
http://www.gvenegas.com