Anti-DRM-Campaign

DRM-free Music from EMI

April 3, 2007: EMI, the world’s third largest music company, said today that it was making its music available online without a key anti-piracy measure in a deal with Apple Inc. to boost sales of digital music. Read the full story

Digital Restrictions Management (DRM) is a technology that affects all users of computers, media players, mobile phones and other devices.

"'Your devices don't trust you!' is the basic message of DRM. In fact they trust you so little that they will not even tell you that they put you under surveillance," says Joachim Jakobs, FSFE's media coordinator. [1]

“If consumers even know there's a DRM, what it is, and how it works, we've already failed,” says Peter Lee, an executive at Disney. [2]

"DRM technologies are based on the principle that a third party has more influence over your devices than you, and that their interests will override yours when they come in conflict. That is even true where your interest is perfectly legitimate and legal, and possibly also for your own data," explains Georg Greve, FSFE's president. [3]

"the problem with restriction systems is that they require your computer to be under control of somebody other than you. In order to implement it up at layer seven, something that they want to achieve, we could argue what they are trying to achieve at layer seven is a good thing or a bad thing or it should be allowed or it shouldn't be allowed. My problem is that if they are gonna lock you down way back down layer zero inside the kernel inorder to achieve an effect at layer seven, you know what they are going to accomplish, a zillion unintented consequences or at any rate irrelevant consequences." - explains Eben Moglen, professor of law and history of law at Columbia University, serves pro bono as General Counsel for the Free Software Foundation, and is the Chairman of Software Freedom Law Center [4]

This page co-ordinates Indian DRM Elimination Campaign, to educate the consumers about the evils of DRM and initiate public debate on the same.

Act Against Proposed Amendments for DRM in Indian Copyright Law

It is strongly recommended to watch this video debate at Holland Open on DRM to get basic understanding the issues surrounding DRM (understand clearly to such a level for you to explain it to your friends). A transcript of the debate is being prepared and any help to complete it is appreciated. If you didn't get it completely and some doubts are there shoot a mail to fsf-friends list.

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If you use Google Talk or any of the messenger services please set 'Eliminate DRM!' and a link to this page as your status message. Also set this as your email signature. People have started asking me "what is DRM?" after setting my status message in Google Talk (and it appears in orkut as well). This is one of the easiest ways in which you can participate in this campaign.

Help needed to complete the transcript of a debate on DRM at Holland Open.

A letter to forward to your friends to warn against DRM - after all you get lots of useless forwards everyday and lets use that for something useful

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