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Digital Rights Management

Defective by Design

Submitted by shiri on Mon, 2007-01-08 17:21.

I love the poetics of the name. Less obscure to the general public and so much cooler than garden variety "anti-DRM" campaigns. "Defective by design " refers to Digital Rights Management (DRM) protections that limit and restrict even fair use of electronic gadgetry like DVD and MP3 players.

This campaign is organized by the Free Culture Foundation and has over 15,000 registered members. Even Newsweek recently reported on the effectiveness of this campaign at attacking DRM and effectively educating people on the unfair monopoly privileges of these intellectual property rights.

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