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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: 5, Insightful) by c0lo on Wednesday September 19 2018, @11:23AM (1 child)

    by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday September 19 2018, @11:23AM (#736988) Journal

    International Day Against DRM Celebrates its 12th Anniversary

    Is it like "Long live the International Day Against DRM, many happy returns"?

    I would have thought that "International Day Against DRM mourns its 12th Anniversary" is much more appropriate.
    It would be a joy the "International Day Against DRM" to have no reasons to exist.

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    • (Score: 2) by canopic jug on Wednesday September 19 2018, @11:49AM

      by canopic jug (3949) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday September 19 2018, @11:49AM (#736997) Journal

      Yeah that would have been a better phrasing.

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  • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday September 19 2018, @11:44AM (5 children)

    by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday September 19 2018, @11:44AM (#736995) Homepage Journal

    Normal users have no business being able to directly control hardware. That's root's job.

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    My rights don't end where your fear begins.
    • (Score: 1, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 19 2018, @11:58AM (4 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 19 2018, @11:58AM (#737004)

      Yesyes TMB, we all recognize your autocratic leanings by now.

      Who is root? On a vanilla smartphone owned by the masses? It definitely isn't the user.

      So I FTFY: Normal users have no business being able to directly control hardware, ever. That's the OS vendor's job, and he'll do it any way he pleases! (if he pleases at all).

      Sound dictatorial yet?

      • (Score: 2) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday September 19 2018, @12:04PM (2 children)

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday September 19 2018, @12:04PM (#737006) Homepage Journal

        Damn, you're right. Scuse me while I go change everyoneon staff's seclev to 10000 and add them to the sysops group in kerberos. The rest of you will need to send me a ssh pubkey if you want root on the servers.

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        My rights don't end where your fear begins.
        • (Score: 2) by c0lo on Wednesday September 19 2018, @12:15PM

          by c0lo (156) Subscriber Badge on Wednesday September 19 2018, @12:15PM (#737011) Journal

          The rest of you will need to send me a ssh pubkey if you want root on the servers.

          Deal! I'll send one, just tell me where

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          https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoFiw2jMy-0 https://soylentnews.org/~MichaelDavidCrawford
        • (Score: 2) by PartTimeZombie on Wednesday September 19 2018, @10:21PM

          by PartTimeZombie (4827) on Wednesday September 19 2018, @10:21PM (#737273)

          Thanks mate. My password is hunter2. It usually just shows up as ******* though.

      • (Score: 3, Informative) by The Mighty Buzzard on Wednesday September 19 2018, @12:11PM

        by The Mighty Buzzard (18) Subscriber Badge <themightybuzzard@proton.me> on Wednesday September 19 2018, @12:11PM (#737010) Homepage Journal

        And in case you were having a whoosh moment, I was being a wiseass and talking about the kernel Direct Rendering Manager [wikipedia.org].

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        My rights don't end where your fear begins.
  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 19 2018, @01:46PM (1 child)

    by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 19 2018, @01:46PM (#737023)

    the only good DRM in technolgy is the drm that reliably isolates logic as "a axiom system" from a infinite sea of chaos : ]

    • (Score: 1, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 19 2018, @01:53PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday September 19 2018, @01:53PM (#737025)

      WALLe, after shooting disney in the foot by bringing the axiom home, was let go.

  • (Score: 3, Funny) by Fnord666 on Wednesday September 19 2018, @09:37PM (1 child)

    by Fnord666 (652) on Wednesday September 19 2018, @09:37PM (#737243) Homepage
    I can't believe they didn't wait one day so that it could be on International Talk Like a Pirate Day [talklikeapirate.com]!
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