DefectiveByDesign, a FSF campaign to eliminate DRM, has written an open letter to Bono the lead singer of the Irish rock band U2 to take a stand against Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). The group has focused on Bono because of his social activism and leadership in the music industry. The aim is to collect 10.000 Read more »
April 26th was the "World Intellectual Property Day" (German). Brigitte Zypries, minister of justice of Germany, said "We need a better sense of right and wrong for ‘intellectual property’" and announced that the protection of ‘intellectual property’ will be the main focus when Germany will held the Presidency of the Council of the European Union Read more »
On the first Open Mind Commons (OMC) Workshop Sun Microsystems released two draft specifications for Digital Restrictions Management (DRM): DReaM-CAS (Conditional Access System) and DReaM-MMI (Mother May I) and a free (as in freedom) prototype implementation of the DReaM-CAS conditional access system. So far it isn’t anything special that the industry works on DRM systems. Read more »
Karsten Gerloff has written about watermarking as a replacement of Digital Restrictions Management (DRM). I’m against watermarking as i’m against DRM. Replacing an restriction technology (DRM) with an observing or tracking technology (watermarking) is probably even more harmful if people constantly have to life in fear that a file with their signature could sometime appear Read more »