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The Day Against DRM

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the you-have-nothing-to-lose-but-your-chains dept.

Qubit writes, "DefectiveByDesign.org, a campaign by the Free Software Foundation, is making Oct 3rd a Day Against DRM: 'Defeating DRM is all about awareness. The direct actions that we have taken are all about this. Today we are asking you to let the people around you know that DRM is bad for our society. Let's create space for the debate. Do we want handcuffs and locks on art and knowledge? As our friends at Disney recognize, if there is this debate, we will have won.'" Bayboy adds an article from eWeek mentioning that members of DefectiveByDesign.org are going to descend on flagship Apple stores in New York and London to protest the company's embrace of DRM. And Another AC writes, "In honor of the Day Against DRM, DreamHost has released a new service called Files Forever (for Dreamhost customers only during beta) This seems to be basically an iTunes Music Store that anybody can sell any sort of files through... as long as they have no DRM. Dreamhost handles all the payment processing and stores the file forever, offering unlimited re-downloads to end users who buy files through the service. When somebody buys a file they're even allowed to 'loan' it to others for free!"

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  1. pr0n by User+956 · · Score: 4, Funny

    Let's create space for the debate. Do we want handcuffs and locks on art and knowledge?

    As a master debater, I can say that I do enjoy handcuffs and locks on at least *some* of the art. That is, if you call pr0n "art".

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    1. Re:pr0n by The+Real+Toad+King · · Score: 4, Funny

      If you are suggesting that porn should be illegal, then I assure you at least 50% of all web users will become criminals, if they weren't already. Probably even you. Yes you, the person reading this.

    2. Re:pr0n by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 5, Funny
      If you are suggesting that porn should be illegal, then I assure you at least 50% of all web users will become criminals...

      To (probably mis-) quote Dr. Cox (Scrubs), "If you got rid of all the porn on the Internet, there'd probably only be one site left and I'm pretty sure it would be called 'Bring back the porn'".

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    3. Re:pr0n by fahrbot-bot · · Score: 2, Funny
      No. That is a pretty close quote.

      Thanks, but I kicked myself after hitting "Submit" as I forgot the best part of any Dr. Cox quote: "Look Newbie..."

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  2. Re:The only way is through economics. by untouchableForce · · Score: 2, Funny

    "There is a very good possibility that in the near future, people will start changing their music players, like the new MS Zune." I'll caution against this line of thinking, in order for that to prove your point people will actually have to buy the Zune.

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  3. Re:Too late. by dotgain · · Score: 2, Funny
    See ya next year then, that is if DRM won't already have become a de facto with Vista, the PS3 and God knows what else.

    Aren't you going to at least pop in for the April 2 jokes?

  4. Re:Great... by wsand70 · · Score: 2, Funny

    As a LUG contact person I got a kit this weekend from FSF that has two bundles of stickes and info on this project. Too bad our next LUG meeting is three weeks away. So my contribution was to have my 5 year old son wear a big sticker on the back and a little one of the front. Then I trained him to inform ppl what DRM was an acronym for if they asked.