June 23: RIAA action day
p2p news / p2pnet: Have you always wanted to tell Organized Music’s RIAA a thing or ten?
Then mark June 23 down because that’s the date Defective by Design has slated for its next coordinated day of action, “and this time it doesn’t involve yellow hazmat suits,” we’re told.
In fact, you won’t even have to leave your desk because DbD will provide contact numbers for executives at the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), and similar organizations around the world.
Are you paying attention, CRIA, ARIA and all the other Warner Music, EMI, Sony BMG and Vivendi Universal ‘trade’ outfits?
“We’re asking you to proclaim your support for digital freedoms by calling the RIAA and telling them what you think of DRM and what you think of them!”
Log in on Friday and you’ll get a number to call and, “After you’ve made your call, you can let us know how it went,” says the action group, adding:
“Remember, tell your friends about this action, the more people that take part, the more fun this will be. With just 480 calls at one minute each, we can let the industry hear our voices all through the workday. The RIAA pushes DRM on us; it’s time to push back!”
DefectiveByDesign.org is the tag for an anti-DRM campaign targeting Big Media, unhelpful manufacturers and DRM distributors.
It aims to make all manufacturers wary about bringing their DRM-enabled products to market and, “Our aim is the abolition of DRM as a social practice,” say the organizers, stating:
“Big Media would have you believe that DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. However, since its purpose is to restrict you the user, it is more accurate to describe DRM as Digital Restrictions Management. DRM Technology can restricts users’ access to movies, music, literature and software, indeed all forms of digital data. Unfree software implementing DRM technology is simply a prison in which users can be put to deprive them of the rights that the law would otherwise allow them.”
(Thanks, Sal)
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Also See:
Defective by Design – The campaign to eliminate DRM
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June 21st, 2006 at 4:11 pm
Mitch at the RIAA – yeah, can I help you?
me – What The Mitch Glasier? The Mitch Glasier who in October of 2001, while we all were still reeling from Sept. 11th, tried to get an amendment inserted into the USA Act (the Antiterrorism bill) that would allow the RIAA to hack our computers?
Mitch at the RIAA – Actually I prefer the story about how, when I was chief counsel for Congress’ copyright subcommittee, I inserted the “sound recording” amendment to an unrelated bill. That amendment made all music recordings as works for hire, robbing musicians of their right to get back their masters, after 35 years. The RIAA then offered me this job and $500K salary – now that’s a story.
me – Right.
source http://www.boycott-riaa.com/rogues/mglazier
June 21st, 2006 at 4:55 pm
http://www.p2pnet.net/story/8511