Do You Know Where Your DRM Is?

Filed in archive Consumer Rights , Events , Privacy & Security on October 3, 2006

Defective by Design declared today "Day Agsint DRM" The group aims to create awareness that DRM is both widely used and hurts consumers. The only digital rights it protects are those of the entertainment industry, not yours.

How can you help? They provide a snappy list on the web site:

* Email your friends and family, use our prepared text. This is the big one - attack that address book!!
* Add this text to your email signature for the day.
* Post on a forum or message board that you subscribe to.
* Download and print this sign and hang one at your desk, the office water cooler, or in an elevator.
* Download and print this leaflet and give it to coworkers or others you see today, maybe even distribute them on your lunch hour or during your commute.
* Sign the Bono petition. We are getting ready to get his answer.
* Google bomb DRM by adding this link to your website or any web page you can edit.
* Digg the day of action
* Watch these videos, send them to friends and rate them.
* Photograph your actions and post them to Flickr tagged with "dayagainst drm defectivebydesign".