DRM attacked in San Francisco!

A good Business Week article
http://businessweek.com/technology/content/jun2006/tc20060609_532973.htm
on the June 10th demonstrations and the issue itself.


"The motive for DRM schemes is to increase profits for those who impose them, but their profit is a side issue when millions of people's freedom is at stake; desire for profit, though not wrong in itself, cannot justify denying the public control over its technology. Defending freedom means thwarting DRM."
--Richard Stallman, Opposing Digital Rights Mismanagement
http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/opposing-drm.html

DRM Technology can restricts users’ access to movies, music, literature and software, indeed all forms of digital data. DefectiveByDesign.org is a broad-based anti-DRM campaign that is targeting Big Media, unhelpful manufacturers and DRM distributors. The campaign aims to make all manufacturers wary about bringing their DRM-enabled products to market. DRM products have features built-in that restrict what jobs they can do. These products have been intentionally crippled from the users' perspective, and are therefore "defective by design". This campaign will identify these “defective” products, and target them for elimination. The campaign's aim is the abolition of DRM as a social practice.

http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/06/17/18281102.php