October 3rd Declared “Day Against DRM”
Sunday 17th September, 2006 | 12:47 pmI picked up on this a few weeks ago, but since it’s getting closer to the date and I got e-mailed about it within the last couple of days, thought I’d post it up.
The Free Software Foundation, who I’ve been a supporter of for quite a while now, have been pushing for protests against DRM including clauses within the GPL v3 which has been causing plenty of debates for months now. But, they’ve picked my birthday (hint hint!) as a major focus point for protesting against DRM. Check out their announcement on “Day Against DRM” to find out more, including how to sign their petition and anything you can do help out.
No wise comments about how I own a MacBook and an iPod - you’ll find no iTunes-purchased music on the iPod as I abhor it, it’s all podsafe music on there or music I’ve imported from my own CD’s. I support the FSF on this one, especially since it’s clear the kind of problems DRM causes when you look at what will happen when Microsoft’s Zune played gets released - that doesn’t look it will even play it’s own Windows Media encrypted formats!
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Iain Foulds, 25 years old. Originally from England, now living in Bethel, Alaska where I work as a systems analyst for the school district. I've been involved in a number of open source projects for many years and used to produce two major music podcasts.