Down with DRM
Okt 4th, 2006 by Rudi
If consumers even know there’s a DRM, what it is, and how it works, we’ve already failed.
Disney Executive
Also machen wir die Sauerei hier mal bekannt: DRM steht für “Digital Rights (wahr ist: Restrictions!) Management” und ist so ziemlich das Übelste, was sich die Musikindustrie in enger Kooperation mit Microsoft einfallen ließ, um Musikliebhaber zu gängeln und an die Kette zu nehmen.
Der Mensch ist frei geboren; und überall liegt er in Ketten.
Und als freiheitsliebender Mensch hasse ich Ketten nun mal bis aufs Blut! Sie auch? Dann boykottieren Sie DRM wo immer es geht! Und es geht immer!!
! Down with DRM !
- Canadian Music Creators – “Suing Our Fans is Destructive and Hypocritical”
- Defective by Design – DRM is Defective By Design
- Free Culture Society – Down with DRM
- Free Software Foundation – Free software is a matter of liberty not price
- Guydmann – Anti-RIAA Propaganda Video
- Stop DRM now!
- YouTube – Anti-DRM-Videos
- Wikipedia – Digital Rights Management
- Wikipedia.de – Digitale Rechteverwaltung
Dear Bono,
You have dedicated a major part of your life’s work to fighting for good causes, bringing pressure to bear on the powerful and political elite to effect positive change. In the same way that you have called for action from world leaders, we now call upon you to look at the facts surrounding Digital Restrictions Management (DRM), and join us in demanding an end to handcuffs on technology and culture.
The recording industry claims that if they don’t impose these handcuffs, online music distribution will be disastrous for artists. We have heard these arguments before. In the early 1900s, music publishers cried out that the fledgling recording industry was usurping the profits of musical composers. We heard it again in the 1980s, when industry executives vehemently assured us that the VCR would destroy the movies, and audio cassettes would kill music.
In all these cases, people copied, swapped and shared, just as they do today. In each instance there was an explosion in the amount of art enjoyed. More, not less art was created. More, not less, money was collected by business – though the music companies did not always care about supporting the musicians. The fact is, the more art we are exposed to as a society, the more art we appreciate. The act of copying and sharing creates more art lovers who can support more artists. Copying and sharing have been vital protagonists in the flourishing story of music.
The art of music changes with technology. With the digital tools now available to them, young people are remixing and “mashing up” music and visual art to make new original works. Copying and manipulation of the media are necessary to do this, but DRM restrictions prevent it.
Your record label’s parent company Vivendi-Universal plays a leading role in imposing these restrictions on digital technology. Meanwhile, trade groups like the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) lobby continuously for ever more draconian restrictions and pursue intimidating lawsuits against fans they accuse of circumventing them.
As technologists we have come together in an effort to help raise public awareness of the threats posed by DRM. Because of your past accomplishments as a musician and activist, you command the respect needed to bring this debate to the public. Musicians in Canada have already formed a coalition to stand up against the actions of their record labels (musiccreators.ca), but we need artists everywhere to be conscious of what is being done in their name. We the undersigned urge you to speak out in favor of technology and culture free from digital restrictions.
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