Meet DRM.info
p2pnet.net News:- There’s a new alliance in town, and for a change, it’s nothing to do with the entertainment and software cartels using DRM to try to tie you in legal knots.
Rather, DRM.info is an anti-DRM collaboration involving the Consumer Project on Technology (CPTech), Electronic Frontier Finland (EFFI), Electronic Information for Libraries (eIFL.net), Free Software Foundation Europe, iCommons (iCommons), International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions (IFLA) and netzpolitik.org (netzpolitik.org).
Large media and technology companies are the main beneficiaries of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM), says the new site, “Because both groups have considerable market power combined with disproportionate direct and indirect influence on all media, critical review of DRM technologies and their effect on all areas of society has been sadly lacking throughout the past years.”
With this min mind, DRM.info says it plans to, “foster critical dialogue by putting light on those issues that are otherwise conveniently left in the dark by asking:
“How much and in which way do DRM technologies damage which areas of society, either directly or as collateral damage done by the introduction of Digital Restrictions Management?”
However, the collaborators don’t speak for each other, they emphasise, stating:
“Each organisation and individual that writes on DRM.info is ultimately responsible only for their own statements. We embrace and appreciate the plurality that follows from this and hope it will enrich the debate.”
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October 26th, 2006 at 1:34 pm
One of my biggest complaints about DRM is that when you buy a product, there is usually no notification that it has drm. How many dvd players have you seen where it states on the box that you can’t dub a dvd to vcr? When you buy computer hardware, again there is probably no notification that is has a Trusted Platform Module. ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trusted_Platform_Module ) What I would like to see (If it already exists, could someone give me the url?) is a web site with a listing of consumer products that have drm, and what the drm does. Even more important, would be another listing of consumer products and computer hardware that does not contain any drm. Regarding TPM I don’t want any outside person or company having control of my hardware.