Digital Restriction Managment

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What is DRM?
Big Media would have you believe that DRM stands for Digital Rights Management. However, since its purpose is to restrict you the user, it is more accurate to describe DRM as Digital Restrictions Management. DRM Technology can restricts users’ access to movies, music, literature and software, indeed all forms of digital data. Unfree software implementing DRM technology is simply a prison in which users can be put to deprive them of the rights that the law would otherwise allow them.

From Richard Stallman, President of the FSF:
”The motive for DRM schemes is to increase profits for those who impose them, but their profit is a side issue when millions of people’s freedom is at stake; desire for profit, though not wrong in itself, cannot justify denying the public control over its technology. Defending freedom means thwarting DRM.”

We oppose Treacherous Computing!
Who should your computer take its orders from? Most people think their computers should obey them. With a plan they call "Trusted Computing", the Big Media corporations, together with computer companies such as Microsoft, Apple and Intel, have decided that your computer should obey them instead of you. Treacherous Computing is now inside most new computers and devices, and is the bedrock upon which DRM is being built.

Can Free software licensing help protect us from DRM?
One common view among programmers is that the GNU General Public License (GPL) - the software license covering most of GNU/Linux - should say nothing at all about DRM, because DRM is a technical problem, and can be solved by technical means. This was true five years ago—all DRM was ultimately software, all software is data, and all data is mutable. So, DRM could always be circumvented. In other words, these people are perfectly happy to have DRM so long as it is toothless.

But even if it were acceptable to have DRM from which programmers could free themselves, that’s not the DRM we have in 2006. Modern DRM is based on Treacherous Computing (TC). The Trusted Computing Group realized that a secret cannot be kept in software that is widely distributed. So, they moved the secret, and the root enforcement mechanism into hardware. From the Trusted Platform Module’s private key grows a twisted tree of "trust", where "trust" is defined to mean that your computer does what others expect of it. You can't chop down the tree except from the root, and that key is inside a piece of hardware. Now, you not only need to be a programmer, but a hardware engineer.

The new draft of the GPL contains explicit provisions to protect free software from DRM.

You can help thwart DRM.

I GUESS YOU HAVE SOME QUESTIONS!!!

Q: What the heck is DRM, and why is it so bad?

A: Good question. First, let me list for you some of the things that I like to do, as the chances are you like to do this stuff too:

* I record my favorite shows and watch them later.
* I like to create mix tapes for my friends.
* I want to watch my movies on my PC, TV and portable device.
* I make back-ups of all the music I've downloaded.
* I want to watch the new high definition stuff on my high definition display.
* Sometimes I like to share my videos or DVDs with my friends or family.
* I like privacy, so I don't want anyone snooping what I've watched or read.
* And I want to switch to GNU/Linux and do all this stuff as well.

DRM enables Big Media to stop you from doing this stuff. You see, THEY call it Digital RIGHTS Management - their rights. They want the right to restrict you and your behavior. That's why WE call it Digital Restrictions Management.

In short the Big Media conglomerates have realized that the traditional way of doing things - they sell you stuff and it's yours - isn't as good for them as - they sell you stuff and it's theirs. It's much better for them if they still own the stuff you buy from them.

Free Software refuses to be locked down by DRM, so Big Media will refuse to release films or music playable by free software.

Q: But my latest THINGY allows me to do some of the above?

A: For now, but with DRM they get to change the rules whenever they want and that can mean only one thing - more restrictions in the future.



Thank You For Reading This.

Now do something by registering on DBD website and lets thwart DRM

[Samuel]

It never happen. The music industry benefits off of these types of things.

All this restriction bullshit, will never fly.