Anti-DRM CD boycott
p2p news / p2pnet: Had a gut-full of the Big Four Organized Music cartel’s DRM efforts?
There’s a way to make them pay attention.
FreeCulture.org has set up a pledge to boycott DRM CDs!
"DRM severely restricts our rights as users, creators, and members of the global community," says the pledge site.
"We will not stand by and let fair use grow extinct as a consequence of poorly thought out technology and the laws that support it. DRM severely restricts our rights as users, creators, and members of the global community. We will not stand by and let fair use grow extinct as a consequence of poorly thought out technology and the laws that support it."
The deadline is February 6.
January 14th, 2006 at 12:15 am
And I would like to add that if you do already have a DRM CD, it is your duty as a filesharer to rip it to a safe format such as mp3 format for your peers and then to share it, so that others may avoid the poison.
January 14th, 2006 at 2:40 am
Couldn’t someone programm something like the riaa-radar, allowing you to check whether a CD is DRM-crippled or not before buying / ordering it ?
If properly promoted, such a site could become a weapon of mass destruction against DRMs.
January 14th, 2006 at 3:44 pm
“I will pledge to never purchase a CD contaning any form of Digital Rights Management (DRM)…”
OR
I pledge to bypass copy protection technologies, because there will always be a way around it. Power to the people, baby!
January 14th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
Or as FLAC format
January 14th, 2006 at 10:09 pm
OK, then add a per country option.
January 15th, 2006 at 2:44 am
This is for entertainment purposes only
What if, someone took a DRM-crippled CD, shift-keyed and ripped it, and then took a bunch of el cheapo “free after rebate” CD-Rs, burned a bunch of copies, and then left them lying around, one at a time, in public places? Besides the P2P sneakernet, it would really get the point across.
January 16th, 2006 at 10:42 pm
If only someone could write one of these for PocketPC/Palm – then we could check CDs while we are in the store itself!