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posted by chromas on Wednesday September 19 2018, @11:11AM   Printer-friendly
from the rights-for-me-but-not-for-þe dept.

The International Day Against DRM is twelve years old today. International Day Against DRM fights to raise awareness of the problem of digital restrictions management technology (DRM) and offers methods how to fight it. Specifically, one idea is to try to avoid any and all DRM for the day to be cognizant of where and how it is creeping into daily life. The other is to nudge others to eschew or at least become aware of DRM. The author Cory Doctorow has posted an editorial over at the Electronic Frontier Foundation about how and why to resist DRM.

The Free Software Foundation's Defective by Design campaign today celebrates its 12th annual International Day Against Digital Rights Management. DRM is the controversial practice of restricting what consumers can do with legitimately acquired digital media. Given its pervasive nature, is it possible for you to completely avoid DRM for the day?

[...] Content with DRM is restricted by default yet by its very nature only affects legitimate purchases. Those who pirate their software, for example, are unaffected since piracy groups remove the DRM from content before release. Bizarrely, however, some pirates have even protected their work with DRM, signalling that no one is immune. There are great alternatives, however.


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  • (Score: 1, Offtopic) by realDonaldTrump on Thursday September 20 2018, @01:40PM

    by realDonaldTrump (6614) on Thursday September 20 2018, @01:40PM (#737479) Homepage Journal

    The SoylentNews Editors waited. Because they put up the story on Sept. 19.

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