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New DRM-Free Label Announced

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the seal-of-approval dept.

jrepin writes "Awareness has been spreading among individuals, businesses and other organizations that DRM is a completely unnecessary restriction of freedom, and it drives people away. As that awareness spreads, going 'DRM-Free' becomes more and more valuable for patrons. To really build upon that image and to provide a resource for people to learn about why being DRM-Free matters, a logo was created for suppliers to proudly advertise that their files all come unencumbered by restrictive technologies. Some among early adopters are O'Reilly Media, ClearBits, Momentum Books, and ccMixter."

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  1. Ugly by rebelwarlock · · Score: 4, Insightful

    That logo is hideous. Who's going to be putting that on their packaging?

    1. Re:Ugly by EZLeeAmused · · Score: 3, Funny

      Well, they had to do something to keep people from stealing those products.

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    2. Re:Ugly by black3d · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Agreed, that's a pretty bad logo. Kudos to them for the idea. It needs to be promoted, but not with that. It'd too cluttered. Text is a bad thing. It should be optional, underneath, beside, etc, but not wrapped around as part of the logo. The idea of brand recognition is that the logo becomes instantly identifiable, which means it DOESN'T need to have a detailed explanation of what DRM-FREE means, in the long term. Put the text "with it" now somehow, but not as the actual logo. :\

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  2. DRM-free Should be the DEFAULT by Mitreya · · Score: 4, Insightful

    People looking for ebooks in places like Amazon often have trouble figuring out which ebooks have DRM and which don't because Amazon does not advertise that information.

    How can they NOT make that information easily available?
    Why do people not return books more as soon as they run into an unadvertised DRM problem?

  3. Nicwe Logo, but... by flogger · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's a nice clear logo, but there are may people who will still prefer THIS as their DRM free logo of choice.

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  4. Re:That will last about five minutes by cpu6502 · · Score: 3, Informative

    You mean like they made it illegal to brand "GM free" foods? Yeah. Lovely country we have here... the government sure does protect us from those bad companies selling tainted food. We might actually be better-off without the 3-letter agencies.

    Here's another site I want to nominate for the DRM-free logo. They even hand-out free books for download:
    http://www.baenebooks.com/
    http://www.baenebooks.com/c-1-free-library.aspx

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