[cc-community] Help fight DRM! Join us now!

Mike Linksvayer ml at creativecommons.org
Mon Jan 14 20:09:33 EST 2008


On 1/14/08, Matt Lee <matt at cnuk.org> wrote:
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> Defective by Design is nearing the end of its year end fundraiser.
>
> Help us fight DRM in 2008 by joining the FSF!
>
> http://www.fsf.org/appeal/2007/mako/


Apparently my membership was on auto-renew, so the appeal didn't help. :)

Also, if you have Digg -
>
>
> http://digg.com/tech_news/120_members_17_days_Support_user_freedom_and_the_FSF


Done.

I'd love to hear what people on CC-Community would like to see from
> our campaign against DRM in 2008. Fighting DRM is an important aim for
> the Free Culture movement.


That's easy, promote music and other media under licenses that do not permit
distribution under the license with DRM. :)

(Yes I know there's a lot of nuance around that issue, including the extent
to which CC licenses prohibit DRM -- they don't, just DRM which infringes on
rights granted by the licenses, which presumably would be most DRM extant if
not all -- and some people don't think even that restriction is the right
thing to do -- but the defective by design campaign isn't all about nuance.
:))

Unfortunately it probably isn't that easy, as I'd be hard pressed to find a
relevant site that doesn't use Flash and/or MP3, which presumably rules out
FSF promotion.

If anyone knows of an OGG- and CC-only site that doesn't use Flash for
purists, I'd love to know about it.

Mike
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